2010 Icd Coding Guidelines Part V

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Adverse effect of drugs When the drug was correctly prescribed and properly administered,

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code the reaction plus the Ecode.E930-E949

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Poisoning, Error was made in drug prescription

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Code from 960-979 series

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Sequencing of poisoning codes
improper use of a medication

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Poisoning reaction to medication, code the poisoning code first followed by a code for the manifestation

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Poisoning with a diagnosis of drug abuse or dependence

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The substance abuse and dependence are is coded as an addional code.

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4 primary circumstances for use of V codes

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Person not sick, resolving disease or injury or chronic long-term condition requiring continuous care, health status, newborns birth status.

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Screening code may be listed first for the reason for the visit

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Should a condition be discovered during screening then the code for the condition may be assigned as an additional diagnosis.

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Ecodes External causes of injury and poisoning codes

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E codes capture how the injury or poisoning happened and the place where the event occurred.

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Assign E code for

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the initial encounter of an injury, poisoning or adverse effect of drugs, not for subsequent treatment

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E codes are never

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a principal diagnosis

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Assign as many E codes as necessary

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Assign the E code that most related to the prinipal Diagnosis

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Place of occurrence code

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E849.9 Do not use if the place of occurance is not documented.