ICD-10: Your Leukorrhea Code Will Become a General One in 2013

Don't overlook these Excludes1 notes.

If a patient has leukorrhea, she has whitish, yellowish, or greenish discharge from the vagina. The discharge can be normal or the sign of an infection.

Right now, you should report this condition with 623.5 (Leukorrhea not specified as infective). When you switch to ICD-10 in October 2013, you should report N98.8 (Other specified noninflammatory disorders of vagina) instead. These two codes have a one-to-one correlation, but you should examine how the descriptors differ.

Documentation: You should turn to code N89.8 when the provider documents leukorrhea. If your provider documents leukorrhea NOS, you'll still turn to [...]

- Published on 2011-11-07