Wiki Hyperglycemia In Diabetic Patient

[heatherwinters]

Patient comes in for an office visit, clinician gives dx of hyperglycemia in assessment with plan to check HgA1C. Patient is a diabetic but diabetes is not mentioned in current note or in assessment. Would you use the icd-9 code for hyperglycemia or the code for diabetes?

 

[FTessaBartels]

Hyperglycemia

If there is no mention at all of DM in this note, I'd just code the hyperglycemia.

F Tessa Bartels, CPC, CEMC