Ladamato13
New
Hello! I am a fairly new coder and I am working for a company where I do mostly Radiology coding. My co-workers and I are recieveing some conflicting information about coding a condition that is unspecified as acute or chronic. I was taught in school and most of my co-workers were under the impression that if a condition is unspecified, we automatically code it as acute over chronic (when there is no unspecified code). I was just putting this out there to all of you to see what you were taught and you have been doing. If anyone has a link to a official guideline on this topic I would really appreciate if you could post it because I can't find an ICD-9 guideline or any "official" information on this. Thank you very much in advance!