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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes that six out of every ten infectious diseases (60%) in people are zoonotic, meaning that these diseases are spread between animals and humans. NJPR has developed a coding crossword puzzle to help reinforce correct coding. Earn 1 AHIMA CE credit by completing the puzzle and submitting […]

The ICD-10-CM codes for the diseases discussed in this blog are found in ICD-10-CM Chapter 1: Certain Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (A00-B99) and Chapter 22: Codes for Special Purposes U00-U85) where the code U07.1 COVID-19 is located. Chapter 1 includes, “diseases generally recognized as communicable or transmissible.” Although we are not going to discuss the […]

The topic “Intravascular Ultrasound Assisted Thrombolysis” was brought up at the September 10, 2019, Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting. The issue presented was that no ICD-10-PCS code or code combination was available at that time to fully describe intravascular ultrasound assisted thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).  Related to this issue, it was noted that […]