This question could apply to a number of ICD-9 codes, but I am posing it here for V74.8, other specified bacterial and spirochetal diseases
Brucellosis
Leptospirosis
Plague
Tetanus
Whooping cough
Does specified mean only the particular diseases listed (specified) in the entry? Or does it just mean specified by someone, anyone? In that case it could be used to code any named bacterial or spirochetal disease from the record I'm trying to code. And the diseases named in the entry would simply be examples.
I apologize if the answer to my question is somewhere in the Guidelines.
Brucellosis
Leptospirosis
Plague
Tetanus
Whooping cough
Does specified mean only the particular diseases listed (specified) in the entry? Or does it just mean specified by someone, anyone? In that case it could be used to code any named bacterial or spirochetal disease from the record I'm trying to code. And the diseases named in the entry would simply be examples.
I apologize if the answer to my question is somewhere in the Guidelines.