Urology Coding Alert

Determine whether you are ready for the October 1 implementation. 

With ICD-10 implementation just around the corner, now is the time to assess your readiness. Test your urology-specific skills by deciding the ICD-10 code you would report for each of these 10 test questions. Then, based on your success, focus your attention over the next few months on your weakest areas. 

Question 1: Your urologist documents that a female patient has a post-traumatic anterior urethral stricture. 

Question 2: Your urologist documents that a patient has acute cystitis and hematuria. 

Question 3: Your urologist documents that following a circumcision, the patient had bleeding (hemorrhage) problems, which prompted a circumcision revision.

Question 4: Your urologist documents an adult patient is suffering from an excessive or abnormally large production of urine (over 2.5 to 3 liters per 24 hours).

Question 5: Your urologist documents that the patient frequently wakes up at night to urinate.

Question 6: Your urologist performs an orchiopexy on a patient with a documented unilateral ectopic testis. 

Question 7: Your urologist documents that a patient’s diagnosis is “strangury.”

Question 8: Your urologist documents the he placed stents during a procedure because the patient has intermittent hydronephrosis. 

Question 9: Your urologist documents that a patient has a cancerous tumor in the right renal pelvis. 

Question 10: Your urologist documents that a patient has urosepsis. 

Stay tuned: Watch for the answers to these questions in the next issue of Urology Coding Alert.