ICD-10:
Locate Your Leukorrhea Code In the ICD-10 Manual
Published on Wed Oct 24, 2012
Check out how the descriptors are different.Leukorrhea becomes a little less specific in ICD-10, but you still should cheer for its one-to-one correlation. Background: If a patient has leukorrhea, she has whitish, yellowish, or greenish discharge from the vagina. The discharge can be normal or the sign of an infection. Currently, you should report this condition with 623.5 (Leukorrhea not specified as infective).ICD-10-CM: After October 1, 2014, you should report N89.8 (Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vagina). Code 623.5 maps directly to N89.8. However, you should examine how the descriptors differ. Documentation: You should turn to code N89.8 when the provider documents leukorrhea. If your provider documents leukorrhea NOS, you'll still turn to N89.8 because this term appears as an explanatory term under N89.8.Here's how you will arrive at these codes from the Alphabetic Index (specific to vaginal discharge):Discharge (from) - vaginal N89.8Leukorrhea N89.8Coder tips: Underneath the N89- category, you [...]
