Wiki diabetes coding

[kjohnson]

If a clinician states Diabetes, poor control would you code that as "uncontrolled" or do you only code that when the clinician specifically says the word uncontrolled? Thank you.

 

[mitchellde]

poorly controled is not the same as uncontrolled. You must have the word uncontrolled in the documentation.

 

[rajkumark]

The alphabetic index for poorly controlled indicates as "Code the diabetes by its type with the fifth digit as not stated as uncontrolled.