Question: Our pediatrician diagnosed a patient with a urinary tract infection (UTI), but choosing the right UTI ICD-10 code has been challenging for me. How can I make sure I’m picking the most appropriate code? Montana Subscriber Answer: This can be tricky, [...]
Question: Our urologist diagnosed a patient with a urinary tract infection (UTI) but choosing the right UTI ICD-10 code has been challenging for me. How can I make sure I’m picking the most appropriate code? Montana Subscriber Answer: This can be tricky, [...]
Question: Our physician diagnosed a patient with a urinary tract infection (UTI), but choosing the right UTI ICD-10 code has been challenging for me. How can I make sure I’m picking the most appropriate code? Answer: This can be tricky, because UTIs [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that the physician treated a patient with “blepharoconjunctivitis R eye.” How is blepharoconjunctivitis different from conjunctivitis, and how do I choose a diagnosis code for this condition? New York Subscriber Answer: According to the University of [...]
And see which UTI code is specific to neonates. Coding for urinary tract infections (UTIs) seems straight-forward. After all, a quick index search turns up N39.0 (Urinary tract infection, site not specified), which seems easy enough. However, when you look [...]
For patients under 28 days of age with a UTI, report P39.3. Reporting the correct code for a urinary tract infection (UTI) can be tricky. For example, you need to know when it’s appropriate to use the site not specified [...]
Hint: A UTI may implicate the bladder or kidneys or urethra. Even though an ICD-10 code, N39.0 (Urinary tract infection, site not specified), exists for urinary tract infections (UTI), landing on the right code for a UTI diagnosis is not [...]
Know how and when to bypass N39.0. Coding for urinary tract infections (UTIs) seems very simple. The ICD-10 index for infection - urinary tract automatically leads you to N39.0 (Urinary tract infection, site not specified). But underneath that entry are [...]
Hint: Identify anatomical location to choose correct UTI code. When your urologist performs a urine culture or urinalysis, always make sure you choose the appropriate ICD-10-CM code to describe the patient’s condition, to submit a clean claim. Many different signs, [...]
Know these updates to juvenile osteochrondosis and arthritis coding. 2021 ICD-10-CM changes relevant to orthopedic coding will go into effect Oct. 1, 2020. Use the next few weeks to become comfortable with the changes before you need to implement them [...]
