ICD-10 External Cause Codes (V00-Y99) are secondary codes that capture specific details about an injury or health event. Though it is not mandatory to use external cause codes, medical coding outsourcing companies nevertheless do so because ICD-10 guidelines encourage...
Bacterial gastroenteritis is a diagnosis that medical billing outsourcing companies frequently see. Gastroenteritis causes the stomach and intestines to become irritated and inflamed. While many gastrointestinal infections are caused by viruses, bacterial infections...
On October 1, 2017, practice management and electronic health record systems updated the code sets for pain medicine. New ICD-10 codes in 2018 allow pain physicians and medical coding outsourcing companies to report spinal stenosis with a higher level of specificity...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or lupus is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system is overactive and attacks various organs or cells of the body, causing severe damage and dysfunction. Often called a multi-system disease, this condition...
ICD-10 2018 expands the code choices for pulmonary hypertension (PHT). Reporting PHT correctly, as experienced coders in medical coding companies know, depends on having a proper understanding of hypertension and hypertension groupings. Pulmonary Hypertension...