The eye and ear chapters in ICD-10 are filled with the word "bilateral." Does the patient have otitis in the right ear, left ear, both ears, or an unspecified ear? (Unspecified ear is obviously the wrong choice here.) Both the musculoskeletal chapter and the injury chapter also have lat...
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes???External causes of morbidity and mortality???Factors influencing health status and contact with health services???Codes for special purposes???Mental and behavioural disorders???Organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders???Mental...
10th Edition, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM)[1]-- goes into effect. A significant change for ophthalmology is a chapter (chapter 7) devoted solely to diseases of the eye and adnexa. In ICD-9, the sense organs (eye and ear) were included in the chapter on nervous ...
•ICD-10Usesfullcodetitles, ICD-9doesnot •Plentyofroomforexpansion inICD-10 3 ICD-9-CMDiagnosisCodes Are3–5digits; •Thefirstdigitisalpha(EorV)ornumeric (alphacharactersarenotcasesensitive); •Digits2–5arenumeric;and Adecimalisusedafterthethirdcharacter. Examples: •496 ...