Routine Blood Work Definition and Symptoms. Routine blood work is blood work that is done routinely to check hormone, vitamin, or count levels. Filed Under: ICD 9 Codes, Uncategorized Tagged With: Factors Influencing Health ICD 9 Codes.
If the labs are ordered as a preventive screening, and there are no symptoms to indicate the labs are diagnostic in nature, code Z00.00 Encounter for general adult medical examination without abnormal findings. Patient seen for a yearly physical and bloodwork is ordered.
If the patient has a condition (i.e. diabetes) and the lab work is ordered because the provider wants to see if their medications are working, you'd use codes from the V58.xx range. If they are not on medication, you'd code the disease.
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diabetes) and the lab work is ordered because the provider wants to see if their medications are working, you'd use codes from the V58.xx range. If they are not on medication, you'd code the disease.
If there are no symptoms, and the labs are entirely for screening (in preparation for, or during the preventive exam), you'd code V72.62.
Our office will use V72.62 when the labs are ordered either before or after the actual appointment. If the labs are ordered at/during the Preventive appointment we will use#N#V70.0. And if the patient has a DX we will add that DX as a 2nd DX to further support that we are requesting these labs at the Preventive visit for routine testing but the patient does have this chronic condition.#N#The actual DX should be used if the testing is ordered for treatment purposes.#N#I hope this helps.
If the patient us on medication for a condition then the labs are to see if the treatment is successful, then use V58.83 with the appropriate V58.6- code secondary. If the patient does not have the condition but meets appropriate criteria for screening then use the screening code. If none of these conditions are met and it is performed as a routine, just because then use the V72.62
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.