tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 3

Dispelling the Myth of V Codes and Primary Diagnoses

"Coding myth: V codes should never be used to report primary diagnoses. Although it is inappropriate to use many of the V codes to report primary diagnoses, some V codes are the only choice for providing medical necessity for a procedure. The introduction to the V Codes section of the ICD-9 manual states that they are used when: 1. A person who is not currently sick encounters the health services for some specific purpose, such as to act as a donor of an organ or tissue, to receive prophylactic vaccination, or to discuss a problem which is...

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