ICD-10:
Don't Get Mixed Up Over Mixed Hearing Loss Coding
Published on Tue Mar 18, 2014
ICD-10 won’t cover all options, so you could turn to ‘unspecified’ more often. Many of your current diagnosis codes will be expanded or more specific when you transition to ICD-10 in October, but a big exception for otolaryngology is with conductive hearing loss. ICD-9 options: In ICD-9, conductive hearing loss diagnoses are specific to the location within the ear under [...]
