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ICD-10 Simplifies Preventive Care Coding, Sort Of
July/August 2014 | | FAMILY PRACTICE MANAGEMENT | OA1 FPM s ICD-10 coding series continues with a look at how to code immunizations, routine health exams, and common Preventive Simplifies Preventive Care Coding, Sort OfCindy Hughes, CPC, CFPC You have no doubt heard about the eight-fold increase in diagnosis codes included in the tran-sition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 , but that is not the whole story. You ll be relieved to know that, for some encounters and services, ICD-10 offers fewer or the same number of codes. Codes related to Preventive services are examples of article will focus on how to select ICD-10 codes for immunizations, routine health exams, and common Preventive screenings. These are Z codes found in Chap-ter 21 of the ICD-10 code the ICD-10 Preventive codes are fairly straightforward, Preventive coding can still be compli-cated, of course, in part because of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To obtain insurance payments for Preventive services covered under the ACA, you must properly code the combination of CPT/HCPCS and ICD-10 codes.
July/August 2014 | |www.aafp.org/fpmAmerican Academy of Family Physicians. For the private, noncommercial use of one individual user of the Web site.
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