Urology Coding Alert

Documentation of associated conditions will be important.

There are many types of cystitis which your urologist may treat. One common type is acute cystitis.

Even though you won’t find a one-to-one code correlation for acute cystitis under ICD-10, the code updates shouldn’t pose too much of a problem for your practice.

Learn the Codes

When ICD-10 goes into effect next year, you shouldn’t have too much trouble updating your acute cystitis coding.

Rather than one code — 595.0 (Acute cystitis) — you will have the following two codes to select from:

• N30.00 — Acute cystitis without hematuria
  
• N30.01 — Acute cystitis with hematuria.
  

Documentation will need to be more specific to code acute cystitis, so that you know whether to report N30.00 and N30.01.

Good news: Your urologist is likely already indicating in her documentation whether the patient has hematuria or not.