tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue 8

Reader Question: Ensure External Morbidity Codes Are Secondary

Question: In the interests of painting the most complete diagnosis picture possible, our coding manager wants us to use external causes of morbidity ICD-10 codes from now on. I must admit I’m not too familiar with them. Can you give me a rundown on the external causes of morbidity coding? Michigan Subscriber Answer: The external causes of morbidity codes are in chapter 20 of ICD-10 (codes V00 through Y99). According to the manual, “this chapter permits the classification of environmental events and circumstances as the cause of injury, and other adverse effects.” You’ll use these...

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