AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1984 May - June

Principal Diagnosis: Coding Cautions

The Supplemental Classification (V codes) of ICD-9-CM is provided to deal with occasions when circumstances other than a disease or injury classifiable to categories 001-999 are recorded as the diagnosis or problem. Many of the V codes serve to classify certain types of outpatient encounters or to supplement inpatient diagnoses. Only a certain number of V codes merit use as principal diagnoses. The Health Care Financing Administration has issued a list of V codes to the medical review entities that are not acceptable as principal diagnoses in the Medicare prospective pricing program. To simplify the task of noting which...

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