ICD-10 Update:
ICD-10: Recast Your Late Effects of Cerebrovascular Disease Reporting
Published on Tue Jul 17, 2012
The additional digits call for more details and documentation.The current ICD-9-CM gives you a choice to report the late effects of cerebrovascular disease with codes 438.xx (Late effects of cerebrovascular disease), depending upon the consequences of the cerebrovascular disease. You can choose from codes describing cognitive or speech/language deficits, hemiplegia, vision disturbances, and others.Bone Up on ICD-9 CodesLook at the table below to catch up on the ICD-9 codes 438.0 to 438.9.What's missing: ICD-9-CM codes do not specify the underlying etiology or laterality. ICD-10 will change that with new terminology, etiology details, and anatomic references.Changes: Diagnoses related to late effect of cerebrovascular disease will be in code block I69.xx (Sequelae of cerebrovascular disease) under ICD-10. The term "sequelae" has historically been used in ICD-10. Sometimes a patient's current condition is caused by an original condition or injury that is no longer present. One is said to be the sequela (late [...]
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