tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2021 Issue Q3

Reader Questions: What’s ‘Diabetes 1.5’?

Question: Our provider recently documented a patient as having both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. I have heard of this being called diabetes 1.5, but I cannot find an ICD-10 code for it. Can you shed any light on the condition? Connecticut Subscriber Answer: Diabetes 1.5, also known as latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), is a condition that has characteristics of type 2 diabetes, such as adult onset and resistance to, or deficiency of, insulin, but that is more closely related to type 1, due to its autoimmunity to certain antibodies and to the patient&rsquo...

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