You Be the Coder:
Check for the Right Tonsillitis Code
Published on Thu Aug 31, 2017
Question: Which diagnosis code should we report for acute tonsillitis? Codify Subscriber Answer: Fortunately, EDs that see patients with acute tonsillitis should find a relatively simple path to selecting the most accurate diagnosis code. Although you only had one code to consider under ICD-9, you've had to expand your horizons since ICD-10 wants to know the type of the patient's tonsillitis. [...]