tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2018 Issue 1

Reader Question: Does RADS Code As Asthma?

Question: An adolescent patient presented to our ED with asthma-like symptoms: coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Our physician recorded a diagnosis of reactive airways dysfunction syndrome, or RADS. However, I cannot find an ICD-10-CM code to document this - the closest I can get in the index is reactive airways disease (RAD), but even that doesn't have a code. How should I go about reporting this? Supercoder.com Subscriber Answer: Neither RADS nor RAD (the term recognized in ICD-10-CM) is associated with a code. Instead, the entry for RAD in the ICD-10-CM index simply states, "see Asthma."...

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