Diagnosis Coding: Coding Nondefinitive Diagnoses Remain Your Biggest Challenge

All you need to report are signs and symptoms when diagnostics come back normal.

You think you may have mastered most ICD-9 challenges, but do you know how to deal with a diagnostic test that comes back sans a definitive diagnosis? When you make sure to convey to payers exactly what you found, you'll overcome these challenges. Here are sure-fire ways how to do that.

Follow 3 Rules for Normal Diagnostics Results

Scenario 1: The gastroenterologist refers a patient to a radiologist for an abdominal CT scan (74150-74170) with a symptom of abdominal pain (789.0). The CT scan, when interpreted by the GI, [...]

- Published on 2011-09-09