tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 6

ICD 10: Transition of Chronic Laryngitis Will Be a Simple Switchover to a J Code

Remember to report exposure to tobacco or infectious agents separately. If your physician diagnoses a patient with chronic laryngitis, you will have a simple switchover code to report this condition in ICD-10. Apart from this, all other criteria for reporting this condition, including the types of laryngitis that you report with the same code, remain the same as in ICD-9. However, exposure to infectious agents and pollutants may warrant additional codes.  ICD-9: Now, when your physician diagnose the condition as chronic laryngitis, you report it with the ICD-9 code 476.0 (Chronic laryngitis). You report the same ICD-9...

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