Wiki ICD 9 help

[Kimberley]

Pt came in for an US abdomen...clinical hx if left upper quadrant pain.

Impression: left mid kidney renal stone.

I billed it out with 592.0, got rejection from Houston Trailblazers that 592.0 is not a payable dx code. Would it be coding correct to resubmit with 789.02?

Thanks.

Kimberley Tober
OIA
Franklin, TN

 

[boozaarn]

it looks like

for 5920 the test is usually retroperitonial u/s limited. I think that you should code 78902 and 5920 in your case.

 

[Kimberley]

Order is for a complete abdominal US and all elements are documented? Billing 789.02/592.0 would be appropriate?

Thanks

 

[mitchellde]

You do not use the symptom with the definitive dx, when the definitive condition explains the symptom.

 

[boozaarn]

well,

How do you know that the symptoms and the condition are linked?