Wiki Chronic diarrhea

[trose45116]

Wanted to get other people’s input on how you all code chronic diarrhea. K52.9 or R19.7.

Thanks.

 

[thomas7331]

I responded to your post in the auditing forum - please avoid the duplicate posts to multiple places in the forum, it's really not necessary and against the forum rules, thanks.

 

[clarkmegan]

I am glad you posted this question here, as I would not have seen it under another topic. To answer your question, I would code chronic diarrhea as K52.9 since the book leads you to that code under "diarrhea, chronic"

 

[surfergirl]

Wanted to get other people’s input on how you all code chronic diarrhea. K52.9 or R19.7.

Thanks.

I bill R19.7

 

[mitchellde]

It would be incorrect to use R19.7 if the provider documents Chronic diarrhea.