ICD 10 Coding Alert
Expand Your Cystitis Thinking in October
Question: Will ICD-10 reporting for acute cystitis going to be difficult come October?
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Answer: Even though you won’t find a one-to-one code correlation for acute cystitis under ICD-10, the code updates shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for your practice. When ICD-10 goes into effect next year, you shouldn’t have too much trouble updating your acute cystitis coding.
Rather than one code — 595.0 (Acute cystitis) — you will have the following two codes to select from:
Documentation will need to be more specific to code acute cystitis, so that you know whether to report N30.00 and N30.01.
Good news: Your urologist is likely already indicating in her documentation whether the patient has hematuria or not.
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Expand Your Cystitis Thinking in October
Question: Will ICD-10 reporting for acute cystitis going to be difficult come October? California Subscriber [...]
