Gastroenterology Coding Alert

Use this quiz to identify where you need to focus your learning.

Accurate ICD-10 coding will help safeguard your reimbursement. Do you know which diagnosis codes to report for the conditions your physician documents? Test yourself with these four quiz questions.

Question 1:  The physician identifies a patient with food-induced eosinophilic proctocolitis.

What is the appropriate code for this?

A. K52.81
B. K52.82
C. K52.83
D. K52.89

Question 2: The ICD-10-CM code K59.31 stands for:

A. Toxic megacolon
B. Other megacolon
C. Megacolon NOS
D. Megacolon, not elsewhere classified

Question 3: You may report K59.09 (Other constipation) to code for chronic constipation.

A. True
B. False.

Question 4: Which is the appropriate ICD-10-CM code for “Postprocedural seroma of a digestive system organ or structure following other procedure”?

A. K91.873
B. K91.872
C K91.841
D. K91.840

Food for thought: The most common challenge when tackling ICD-10-CM coding lies in not factoring in all of the available information before you make your code choice, says Carol Pohlig, BSN, RN, CPC, ACS, senior coding and education specialist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

QUIZ ANSWERS:

1) B. The October 2016 update adds various kind of proctocolitis such as allergic, food induced and milk protein proctocolitis to the existing code K52.82 (Eosinophilic colitis).

2) A. This is one of the two new codes added in October 2016 under subcategory K59.3, (Megacolon, not elsewhere classified).

3) A. According to the October 2016 update, K59.09 (Other constipation) also covers chronic constipation.

4) A. This is a new code to specifically code for postprocedural seroma of a digestive system organ or structure. Earlier we had combined codes for post procedural hemorrhage and hematoma.