ICD-10:
Look Ahead to Additional Code Choices for Acute Tonsillitis
Published on Wed Jan 21, 2015
ICD-10 will help you assign more accurate diagnoses. Acute tonsillitis might be one of the most common diagnoses your otolaryngologist assigns, and one of the easiest for you to code. ICD-9 has only one choice for the condition: 463 (Acute tonsillitis). The code includes several types of tonsillitis, including follicular, gangrenous, septic, viral, suppurative, and ulcerative. ICD-10 changes: When you [...]