ICD-10:
Don't Let Diabetes Mellitus Changes Complicate Your Coding
Published on Tue Apr 22, 2014
You’ll have two parent codes to start with, rather than just one. When your physician diagnoses diabetes mellitus or any manifestation of diabetes, you’ll have to scour through patient documentation to check diabetes type (type 1 or type 2) and look specifically for the type of complications and organ systems involved to arrive at the appropriate diagnosis code to report [...]