Order of DX

[rcclary]

If a patient comes in for a colonoscopy and the reasons for the procedure are History of colon polyp (V12.72), Abdominal pain-gen (789.07), and change in bowel habits (787.99) and it ends up being a normal colonoscopy with no problems what order would these DX's be billed in? The patient has a commercial insurance, NOT Medicare.

[dmaec]

I'd put my dx's as follows:
787.99
789.07
V12.72

but, that's just me

[scorrado]

If a patient is having symptoms I always put those prior to the history just like the previous post.

[coachlang3]

You should always start with the reason/symptom the patient came in for.

So dmaec is right.