Otolaryngology:
Keep Your Epistaxis Coding Simple With a Single ICD-10 Choice
Published on Tue Dec 15, 2015
Remember you still have multiple procedure codes associated with diagnosis. Epistaxis – commonly known as nosebleed – occurs when there is acute hemorrhage from the nostril, nasal cavity, or nasopharynx. When you still coded following ICD-9, you would report 784.7 (Epistaxis) for nosebleed. You would also use the same code to report hemorrhage from the nose or bleeding from the [...]