tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2014 Issue 2

ICD-10 Update: Amp Up Your Cardiac And Respiratory Presentations Documentation

Hypertension codes have less specificity except when reported with chronic kidney disease ICD-10 Chapter 9 contains conditions from a wide range of cardiovascular diseases such as acute rheumatic fever, chronic rheumatic and other forms of heart diseases, diseases or arteries, arterioles and capillaries, diseases of veins, lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes and several other and unspecified disorders of the circulatory system. You will want to brush up on these since they account for nearly 20 percent of level 5 ED visits. Don’t Worry About Hypertension Type When Assigning Your ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes Unlike most translations where there is...

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