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Look to "T" Codes for Heatstroke Dx

Published on Thu Aug 02, 2018

Question: We have had more patients than usual who have presented for heatstroke, but we aren’t sure which diagnosis code applies to this. The ICD-10 manual refers me to T67.0 (Heatstroke and sunstroke) for this condition, but when we reported this code, we got a denial. Can you advise? Codify Subscriber Answer: You were looking at the right section of [...]
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