ICD-10: Your ‘Other Anomalies’ Code 748.3 Expands to More Specific ‘Other’ Codes

Tip: Beware submitting probable diagnoses.

If you use 748.3 for all your 'other' congenital abnormalities of the trachea and bronchi for conditions not otherwise specified in ICD-9, then you should be prepared to encounter more specific 'other' codes in ICD-10. Most of them focus on the anatomical areas.

Also referred to as congenital deformities of the upper airway, the current ICD-9 code includes:

• laryngomalacia -- a form of congenital laryngeal stridor characterized by flaccidity of the supraglottic structures;
• laryngeal cyst -- a mucus-filled dilatation of the laryngeal saccule which may distort the aryepiglottic fold, the false cord or the laryngeal ventricle;
• laryngocoele -- an air-filled [...]
  
  - Published on 2012-01-31