Diagnosis Coding:
Check Out These New Diagnosis Codes For 2011
Published on Tue May 18, 2010
Welcome detailed H1N1 pneumonia combination codes. New pneumonia, fluency disorder, and cystostomy complication codes are just a few of the proposed diagnosis coding changes that will affect home care folks the most, come Oct. 1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has unveiled the proposed changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system, giving home care organizations the first look at the ICD-9 changes for 2011. For starters, 488.0x (Influenza due to identified avian influenza virus) and 488.1x (Influenza due to identified novel H1N1 influenza virus) provide more detail for your influenza coding. The co-operating parties who make up the ICD-9 Coordination and Maintenance Committee found that these subcategories didn't provide the level of specificity that category 487 (Influenza) does, so they expanded the codes at 488.0 and 488.1. The result is six new influenza with pneumonia codes for the 2011 ICD-9 update: • 488.01 -- Influenza due to identified [...]