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3-Prong Test Helps Support Your Time-Based Coding for Family Issues

Published on Mon Oct 12, 2009

AAP got you more family disruption, problem counseling, and foster care codes -- start using them. When a child's mother is working overseas, you can now explain the family disruption thanks to ICD-9 2010's expansion of the V61.0 category. "Pediatricians spend a significant amount of time counseling and coordinating care related to family issues," says Richard Tuck, MD, FAAP, pediatrician at PrimeCare of Southeastern Ohio in Zanesville. "Often, this represents time-based coding, which can be supported with the 2009 and 2010 new additional codes for family disruption." Take a look at the specifics of the new 2010 ICD-9 codes in this valuable family disruption series. Differentiate Non-Military From Military Extended Absence Question 1: A father brings his daughter in complaining that she's been acting out at home and in school. During the course of the encounter, he shares that the mother left two months ago to work a one-year law assignment [...]
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