tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 2

ICD-10: Dyskinesia Diagnoses Get More Precise With the New Coding System

You’ll still have an ‘unspecified’ option when lacking details. Abnormal involuntary movements (AIMs) are also known as dyskinesias, and might be the reason behind physicians at your facility performing procedures such as 64612 (Chemodenervation of muscle[s]; muscle[s] innervated by facial nerve, unilateral [e.g., for blepharospasm, hemifacial spasm]) or 95872 (Needle electromyography using single fiber electrode, with quantitative measurement of jitter, blocking and/or fiber density, any/all sites of each muscle studied). There are several varieties of dyskinesia which have different clinical appearances, underlying causes, and treatments. Tremor, chorea, dystonia, and myoclonus are types of dyskinesia with different...

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