Last month the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that as of October 1, 2003, all Medicare Part B claims, including those for covered laboratory services, that are submitted in electronic and paper formats must contain a valid ICD-9-CM diagnosis code or they will be returned ...
if you interpret a urine specimen as “positive for” or “consistent with”transitional cell carcinoma, the code for “transitional cell carcinoma, site not specified” (188.9) should be reported on the insurance claim. You can think of this as the “pathologic code,” as opposed to the “...
Whether it is signs, diseases, social circumstances, abnormal finding, or more ICD represents a comprehensive code list that provides decision support to healthcare providers, health insurance companies, and other healthcare agencies across the world. ICD system is a benchmarking tool for international...