The article presents questions and answers related to medical coding and billing such as one on the readiness for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 implementation, and another on the...
Preparing for ICD-10: Steps to take now, later The article presents questions and answers related to medical coding and billing such as one on the readiness for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 implementation, and another on the application of kidney stone billin... R Paint...
For instance, ICD-10 has one code (I13.1) for hypertensive heart and renal disease with renal failure. ICD-11 has specific code BA01 for hypertensive heart disease and BA02 for hypertensive renal disease. Kidney failure was coded as acute (GB60), chronic (GB61) and unspecified (GB6Z). ...