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| Ambulatory Surgery Coding & Reimbursement Insider |
| July 2008 |
| ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding: The key to coverage, payment |
| Diagnosis codes are important to getting your claims paid. They are the mechanism for providing payers with the what and why of procedures physicians perform. These codes describe diagnoses, signs, symptoms, chronic and acute problems, and conditions. They provide the tools to report the medical necessity of the procedure. When you look up diagnoses in the Alphabetic Index of Diseases in the ICD-9-CM Manual, select a provisional code from the index only; but do not code from the alphabetic index. After you look up the code in the index, turn to the Volume 1 Tabular List and verify the accuracy of the selected code. |
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