Since the primary codes for diabetes mellitus do not include whether a patient is using insulin or not, a second code must therefore be used to code that. For example, ICD-10 code: Z79.4, “Long term (current) insulin use”. The use of the word “long term” unfortunately does not ne...
1. H10.012 Acute conjunctivitis: acute follicular, LEFT eye 2. H26.121 Traumatic cataract: partially resolved RIGHT eye A54.30 Gonococcal infection, eye, unspecified A54.31 Gonococcal conjunctivitis A54.32 Gonococcal iridocyclitis A54.33 Gonococcal keratitis A54.39 Gonococcal eye infection, ot...
The hyphen (-) at the end of a code signifies that another digit is mandatory in order for the code to be valid. This is a 7th character that must be used. The codes to be added in this version are the location designations: 1 = right eye, 2= left eye, 3 = bilateral, 9 = ...
Pre and post-coordination are similar to the ICD-10 process of assigning a single code for a condition or by combining codes, for example when adding infectious organism codes in categories B95-B98 to the site of an infection. By combining codes the classification can address a large number ...