Pediatric Coding Alert

Here’s your chance to prove you know your way around the F01-F99 codes.

Do your anxiety levels increase when your pediatrician documents a patient with a mental, behavioral, or neurodevelopmental disorder? Or do you know how to navigate Chapter 5 more than any other section in your ICD-10 manual?

Whichever is the case, simply answer the following questions to improve your mental health coding and prove to the world that you are a mental health coding champ.

Question 1: In the ICD-10 index, three different codes are listed under “Anorexia.” What are the differences between them?

Question 2: How do you code a patient diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) without hyperactivity?

Question 3: Your provider documents a patient with anxiety depression, noting that the patient has experienced the condition on numerous occasions. How would you code this?

Question 4: Your pediatrician diagnoses an adolescent patient with bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. Would you code this as bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, or both?

Think you know the answers? Click here and find out.