tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 19

CODING: New Codes Will Distinguish Between Disease- And Drug-Related Diabetes

Your diabetes coding will become more accurate in late 2008.Hang in there: The long-awaited new ICD-9 codes for secondary diabetes will have to wait until the 2009 update.Secondary diabetes will receive its own category in 2009, Sheri Bernard, clinical staff member at Ingenix, revealed at the American Academy of Professional Coders 2007 conference in Seattle. Moreover, the subcategories for complications will mirror those for the existing 250.xx series of diabetes codes--which means coders will have lots of new codes to work with.These codes should take effect Oct. 1, 2008, if all goes well, says Amy...

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