Primary Care Coding Alert

ICD-10 Update:

Enjoy Simplified Reporting of Sleep Apnea With G47.30

Hint: Report other associated sleep conditions with additional ICD-10 codes. When your clinician diagnoses sleep apnea, you can breathe easy as the ICD-10 coding system is more simplified than the ICD-9 codes. You now have to report only one specific code for sleep apnea while you have multiple choices in ICD-9. In ICD-9, you have to report other code choices [...]
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