ICD-10 Coding:
Apply These Laterality And Episode of Care Tips For Pediatric Presentation Diagnoses
Published on Mon Jul 20, 2015
Under ICD-10, you’ll need to check the chart to correctly assign that 7th character for the most accurate code choice. Expanding the diagnosis code set from a maximum of five characters in ICD-9 to seven characters in ICD-10 allows for specificity in the areas such as laterality and episode of care for pediatric patients. Consider these pediatric laterality crosswalk examples [...]