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Lyme Disease:

Determine Whether Your Lyme Disease Diagnosis Code Assignment Makes the Grade

Published on Tue Apr 12, 2011

Injury code hinges on your venomous, nonvenomous savvy -- and more.Think a tick is venomous? That error will land you with the wrong ICD-9 code(s).Tick season is approaching once again. Get the scoop you need to land all possible diagnoses for a tick removal or tick bite codes with this guide.Go With 910-919 for Nonvenomous BiteTo support a tick bite or tick removal E/M or foreign body removal (FBR), the first diagnosis code you'll need is the injury code. What caused the injury that requires care? A bite.In the ICD-9-CM index, if you look up "bite: insect," you're faced with a dilemma. Is a tick venomous or nonvenomous? Ticks can infect a child, but they don't have venom like an ant mite would.That specific information lets you choose "bite: insect, nonvenomous," which directs you to the site-specific superficial injury codes (910-919). If you had incorrectly classified a tick as venomous, [...]
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