Coding insights: ICD-10 follow-up: Unspecified codes and modifiersR. DowlingMedical economics
Here, we leverage the largest publicly available HIPAA-limited dataset about patients with COVID-19 in the US to examine the heterogeneity of adoption and use of U09.9, the ICD-10-CM code for “Post COVID-19 condition, unspecified.” Methods We undertook a number of analyses to characterize...
The patient is admitted to the hospital on June 1 and is diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction, unspecified (ICD-10code I21.9). On July 7, the provider sees the patient for a follow-up visit and the patient receives care related to the myocardial infarction. In the scenario described...
Unspecified codes are available for the rare cases in which there is absolutely no other, more specific option. If a more specific option is available, you should use it. What was the CMS grace period? During theICD-10 grace period(October 1, 2015–September 30, 2016), “Medicare review ...