The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 553-554 , July 2010

ICD-10 Coding for Diabetes Mellitus

  • Jan DiSantostefano

      Affiliations

    • Jan DiSantostefano, NP, is a family and women's health nurse practitioner at the SAS Institute, Inc., in Cary, NC.

Reference 

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  . International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM): 2010 update of ICD-10-CM . Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/icd/icd10cm.htm#10update Accessed May 18, 2010.

 In the 2010 release of International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM),1 there are a total of 318 codes for diabetes mellitus, including gestational diabetes mellitus. The reason for the large number of codes is that ICD-10-CM combines multiple disease classes into a single code. The diabetes mellitus codes are combination codes that include the type of diabetes mellitus, the body system affected, and the complications affecting that body system. As many codes within a particular category as are necessary to describe all of the complications of the disease may be used. They should be sequenced based on the reason for a particular encounter.

PII: S1555-4155(10)00211-4

doi: 10.1016/j.nurpra.2010.04.001

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 553-554 , July 2010

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