Long Description: Personal history of noncompliance with medical treatment, presenting hazards to health. ICD-9 V15.81 is a legacy non-billable code used to specify a medical diagnosis of personal history of noncompliance with medical treatment, presenting hazards to health.
2018/2019 ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Code Z91.14. Patient's other noncompliance with medication regimen. Z91.14 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes.
The diagnosis codes for current stroke and sequelae of a past stroke (I63, I69) do have HCC weighted scores assigned to him. But past history of the stroke does not. This brings me to a compliance issue in HCC coding.
Z77-Z99 Persons with potential health hazards related to family and personal history and certain conditions influencing health status Z91.19 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM Z91.19 became effective on October 1, 2021.
1 for Patient's noncompliance with medical treatment and regimen is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Factors influencing health status and contact with health services .
ICD-10 code: Z91. 1 Personal history of noncompliance with medical treatment and regimen.
Z53. 20 - Procedure and treatment not carried out because of patient's decision for unspecified reasons | ICD-10-CM.
Procedure and treatment not carried out, unspecified reason Z53. 9 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM Z53. 9 became effective on October 1, 2021.
When someone is compliant, they go along with what others — especially people in authority — want them to do. When someone is noncompliant, they resist authority. A child refusing to do homework or chores is being noncompliant. A citizen ignoring a police officer's request is being noncompliant.
Noncompliance: Failure or refusal to comply. In medicine, the term noncompliance is commonly used in regard to a patient who does not take a prescribed medication or follow a prescribed course of treatment. A person who demonstrates noncompliance is said to be noncompliant.
ICD-10-CM Code for Procedure and treatment not carried out because of other contraindication Z53. 09.
For example, Z12. 31 (Encounter for screening mammogram for malignant neoplasm of breast) is the correct code to use when you are ordering a routine mammogram for a patient. However, coders are coming across many routine mammogram orders that use Z12. 39 (Encounter for other screening for malignant neoplasm of breast).
ICD-9 Code Transition: 786.5 Code R07. 9 is the diagnosis code used for Chest Pain, Unspecified. Chest pain may be a symptom of a number of serious disorders and is, in general, considered a medical emergency.
Do not code conditions that were previously treated and no longer exist, although history codes may be used as secondary codes if the historical condition or family history has an impact on current care or influences treatment.
ICD-10-PCS GZ3ZZZZ is a specific/billable code that can be used to indicate a procedure.
Sample of new ICD-10-CM codes for 2022R05.1Acute coughT80.82xSComplication of immune effector cellular therapy, sequelaU09Post COVID-19 conditionZ71.85Encounter for immunization safety counselingZ92.85Personal history of cellular therapy1 more row•Jul 8, 2021
But, while it may be relevant to this encounter, without documentation that the clinician was thinking about this past stroke, I would not add it to the claim form. I wouldn’t assume that the physician/NP/PA was thinking about that in terms of the thigh pain after the injury, even though it is on the problem list.
When I was researching Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs) I came across the acronym MEAT.
The example I use most frequently is the patient who presents to urgent care with a bad case of poison ivy. If the urgent care provider says in the assessment, “I’d like to give her prednisone, but I’m not going to because of her diabetes,” then I add diabetes to the claim form.
But would history of a stroke increase the risk score? That is, if the group has risk based contracts, does adding history of stroke increase the risk score for that patient? The answer is no. The diagnosis codes for current stroke and sequelae of a past stroke (I63, I69) do have HCC weighted scores assigned to him.
The CodingIntel Guide to Hierarchical Condition Categories provides a comprehensive list of HCC and Risk Adjusted Diagnosis Coding resources available on CodingIntel.