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How are you all coding diagnosis of "suspected Crohn's"? Because there is no specific diagnosis listed for this in the ICD-9 book, I believe we need to be coding just the signs/symptoms, but our doctors have been using 555.9 (regional enteritis, unspecified). I take the description of this code to mean that they HAVE Crohn's but the site is not specified. Please help! Thanks in advance!
 
You have to code the signs and symptoms as there is no such thing as "suspected crohns". You cannot code "rule out" and "suspected".
 
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