tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 11

Reader Question: Code It Right For Laryngitis

Question: The provider diagnoses a patient with sore throat as having laryngitis. How do we code this? Supercoder.com Subscriber Answer: The answer will depend on what type of laryngitis the patient has. You should use J04.0 (Acute laryngitis) to report acute laryngitis without obstruction. ICD-10 also asks you to report an additional code (B95-B97) to identify the infectious agent responsible for the acute laryngitis. Remember, until a test confirms a condition, you should use signs-and-symptoms diagnoses rather than the diagnosis code for the condition itself. Look to your physician’s documentation to guide your code selection. Coder...

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