Code | Used to report type 2 diabetes with: |
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E11.2X | With kidney complications |
E11.21 | With diabetic nephropathy |
E11.22 | With diabetic chronic kidney disease |
E11.29 | With other diabetic kidney complications |
For gestational diabetes (diabetes that occurs during pregnancy) women should be assigned a code under the 024.4 subheading and not any other codes under the 024 category.
If the type of diabetes that the patient has is not documented in the medical record, E11 codes for type 2 diabetes should be used as a default. If the medical record doesn’t say what type of diabetes the patient has but indicates that the patient uses insulin, the Type 2 diabetes codes should also be used.
ICD-10 codes refer to the codes from the 10th Revision of the classification system. ICD-10 officially replaced ICD-9 in the US in October of 2015.
The switch to ICD-10 was a response to the need for doctors to record more specific and accurate diagnoses based on the most recent advancements in medicine. For this reason, there are five times more ICD-10 codes than there were ICD-9 codes. The ICD-10 codes consist of three to seven characters that may contain both letters and numbers.
The “unspecified” codes can be used when not enough information is known to give a more specific diagnosis; in that case, “unspecified” is technically more accurate than a more specific but as yet unconfirmed diagnosis. For more guidelines on using ICD-10 codes for diabetes mellitus, you can consult this document.
The more characters in the code, the more specific the diagnosis, so when writing a code on a medical record you should give the longest code possible while retaining accuracy.
Here's a conversion table that translates the old ICD-9 codes for diabetes to ICD-10 codes. There weren’t as many codes to describe different conditions in the ICD-9, so you’ll notice that some of them have more than one possible corresponding ICD-10 code. Some are also translated into a combination of two ICD-10 codes (note the use of the word "and").
E10.29 Type 1 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic ...
E11.618 Type 2 diabetes mellitus with other diabetic ...
This article contains an exhaustive list of the ICD-10 codes used most frequently in the treatment of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. E08: Diabetes due to underlying condition. E08.00: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with hyperosmolarity without nonketotic hyperglycemic-hyperosmolar coma (NKHHC). E08.00: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with hyperosmolarity with coma. E08.21: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic neurpathy. E09: Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus. E09.21: Drug or chemically induced diabetes mellitus with diabetic nephropathy. E08.43: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic autonomic (poly) neuropathy. E08.621: Diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with foot ulcer. (Use with additional code – L97.4, L97.5 – to identify the site of the ulcer.) E09: Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus. E09.43: Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus due to underlying condition with diabetic autonomic (poly) neuropathy. E09.621: Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus with foot ulcer. (Use with additional code – L97.4, L97.5 – to identify the site of the ulcer.) E09.9: Drug or chemical induced diabetes mellitus without complications.E10: Type 1 diabetes mellitus. E10.10: Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis without coma. E10.11: Type 1 diabetes mellitus with ketoacidosis with coma. E11: Type 2 diabetes mellitus. E13: Other specified diabetes mellitus. E13.641: Other specified diabetes mellitus with hypoglycemia with coma. E13.649: Other specified diabetes mellitus with hypoglycemia without coma.E10.621: Type 1 diabetes with foot ulcer. (Use with additional code – L97.4, L97.5 – to identify the site of the ulcer.) E11: Type 2 diabetes mellitus. E11.22: Type 2 diabe Continue reading >>
The body system (s) affected 3. The complications affecting the body system (s) When coding diabetes mellitus, you should use as many codes from categories E08-E13* as necessary to describe all of the complications and associated conditions of the disease.
Type 1 and Type 2 are the preferred, distinguished by the use of insulin. According to Gordon Johns, MD, author of ICD-10-CM for Ophthalmology, “Type 1 is a result from a lack of insulin production, whereas type 2 is a result of insulin resistance.”.
How you state it in the chart matters. Current documentation of noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus does not translate to ICD-10. Therefore, language such as “controlled” or “uncontrolled” and “juvenile-onset” or “adult-onset” has become obsolete.
In this form of diabetes, specialized cells in the pancreas called beta cells stop producing insulin. Insulin controls how much glucose (a type of sugar) is passed from the blood into cells for conversion to energy. Lac Continue reading >>. Symptoms, Diagnosis & Monitoring of Diabetes.
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With type 1 diabetes, your pancreas does not make insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose get into your cells to give them energy. Without insulin, too much glucose stays in your blood. Over time, high blood glucose can lead to serious problems with your heart, eyes, kidneys, nerves, and gums and teeth.