let’s assume a physician referred the patient to a physical therapist for rehabilitation of the patient’s strained Achilles tendon. In this case, rehab therapy is a component of the healing and recovery period, so you would assign the seventh character “D” to code for a subsequent encounte...
We have people for ICD 10 coding now. Most nurses are not in the ICD coding manual looking up their own codes anymore because of the specificity that wasn't the same 25 years ago. So, the nurses go out with an H&P from the hospital or doctors office and develop a care plan. It ...