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What is the difference between ICD-9 and ICD-10?
Why ICD-10 codes are important
Are you ready for ICD-10?” And each year, just as we near the brink of converting, someone convinces the powers-that-be we should delay implementation yet again. Companies have invested millions of dollars preparing for the conversion that never comes. The news media reports providers are not ready, and some argue that at this late date we ...
Regarding this, what is the ICD 10 CM code for viral Exanthem? Enteroviral exanthematous fever [Boston exanthem] A88. 0 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2020 edition of ICD-10-CM A88. 0 became effective on October 1, 2019.
During pregnancy, childbirth or the puerperium, a patient admitted (or presenting for a health care encounter) because of COVID-19 should receive a principal diagnosis code of O98.5- , Other viral diseases complicating pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, followed by code U07.1, COVID-19, and the appropriate codes for associated manifestation (s). Codes from Chapter 15 always take sequencing priority
Chapter 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (A00-B99) g. Coronavirus Infections. Code only a confirmed diagnosis of the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as documented by the provider, documentation of a positive COVID-19 test result, or a presumptive positive COVID-19 test result.