tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q2

Diagnosis: Put 'Signs and Symptoms' Coding in its Place

Overcome four falsehoods that hamper your reporting. When you face a case report with no definitive clinical diagnosis, do you find yourself wondering whether or how to report those “current complaints” on the claim? Let our experts clarify whether the following myths you may have heard about reporting signs and symptoms are true or false, based on official ICD-10-CM coding guidelines. Myth 1: Never ‘List First’ a Chapter 18 Code ICD-10-CM’s Chapter 18 is for “Symptoms, Signs, and Abnormal Clinical and Laboratory Findings, Not Elsewhere Classified.” Despite what you may have heard about not...

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