Cardiology Coding Alert

ICD-10-CM narrows your code options from 12 to 4 for hypertensive heart and CKD.

You can expect ICD-10-CM to provide you with combination codes for certain chronic conditions just as ICD-9-CM does, but that doesn't mean the code definitions will be precisely the same.

To see a practical example, review the codes below, which you assign when a patient has both hypertensive heart disease (documentation indicates hypertension causes heart disease) and hypertensive chronic kidney disease (hypertension with chronic kidney disease [CKD] even if no relationship is indicated in the documentation).

ICD-9 coding rules: The terms "benign" and "malignant" feature in the ICD-9 hypertensive [...]

- Published on 2011-11-17