(2014) Brief report pregnancy outcome in women assigned an ICD-9/ICD-9-CM 655.0 code “central nervous system malformation in fetus affecting management of pregnancy”: Can these codes aid in surveillance for central nervous system defects?. Birth Defects Research Part A: Clinical and Molecular ...
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...
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...