tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 2
ICD-10 Update: ICD -9 Directly Crosswalks to ICD-10 With Direct Matches in Non-Infectious Gastroenteritis
Understand the cause to code it right. If your physician diagnoses a patient with gastroenteritis, you will have to first check if the condition is infectious or non-infectious before reporting the diagnosis. The good news is that you don’t have to remember extended codes and can use one-to-one transition codes for the different types of non-infectious gastroenteritis under the ICD-10 system after the implementation date of Oct. 1, 2015. ICD-9: When reporting a diagnosis of gastroenteritis due to drugs or food allergy, you have two ICD-9 codes to choose from: 558.2 (Toxic gastroenteritis and colitis) 558.3...
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