pregnancy terminationICD-9 655.0The difficulty many birth defects registries have in identifying early pregnancy terminations can lead to significant underreporting of certain types of malformations. This study was designed to determine the potential benefit of using maternal ICD-9 codes relating to ...
A joint effort between the healthcare provider and the coder is essential to achieve complete and accurate documentation, code assignment, and reporting of diagnoses and procedures. These guidelines have been developed to assist both the healthcare provider and the coder in identifying those diagnoses...
Transient osteoporosis of the hip was initially reported by Curtis and Kincaid in 1959 in three women during the third trimester of pregnancy.1 In 1968, Levesque first applied the term transient osteoporosis of the hip.2 Transient osteoporosis characterized by bone edema and limited to a single jo...
Limitations of ICD-10 include code fidel- ity, coding accuracy, and location and activity informa- tion capture. Reporting of statistics using ICD coding has been found to underestimate disease and injury causes, largely due to missing/incomplete codes or a lack of specificity in the codes used...