ICD-10 Update:
Enhance Your Acute Bronchiolitis Reporting Using J21 in ICD-10
Published on Thu Jan 31, 2013
Hint: Causative organism is still the basis for selecting the code as in ICD-9. When your pulmonologist assesses patients for shortness of breath, he’ll be looking for causes, such as acute bronchiolitis especially in young infants and children. Be clear about how to code this diagnosis when you begin using ICD-10 codes beginning Oct.1, 2014. Settle for Two Coding Options [...]