tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2020 Issue Q2

ICD-10-CM: Focus Appendicitis Dx Coding

Don’t miss pregnancy impact. When your surgeon treats a patient with appendicitis, you may find coding the case is easy on the procedure side but complicated on the diagnosis side. Look to ICD-10-CM guidelines and the following expert tips for a roadmap to reporting the correct diagnosis codes for your appendicitis cases. Without Surgery, Code Symptoms Sometimes your surgeon will evaluate a patient with suspected appendicitis but decide not to perform surgery. In those cases, without a final diagnosis, you’ll need to know how to corral the best codes to describe the patient’s symptoms. For instance:...

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