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#Cad icd 10 code
Q: Why would you not add a code for diabetic foot ulcer if the patient has diabetes, arteriosclerotic PVD, and a foot ulcer? Don’t you need that code for specificity?Ī: When a patient has a foot ulcer with arteriosclerotic PVD and diabetes, multiple coding conventions apply.
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There is no assumed relationship between diabetes and CAD and the conditions are coded separately. Diabetes has a causal relationship with peripheral vascular disease. Q: There’s an assumed cause and effect relationship between diabetes and peripheral artery disease, but what about coronary artery disease? Do we make the link between CAD and diabetes?Ī: No. The code for diabetic foot ulcer does not provide any additional detail. The combination of these codes provide all the detail to know that the patient has diabetes and an ulcer. ICD-10-CM also assumes a link between arteriosclerosis and the foot ulcer and tabular instructions direct the coder to use an additional code for non-pressure ulcer to describe the site and depth of the ulceration. ICD-10-CM assumes a cause and effect relationship between diabetes and angiopathy (arteriosclerosis). Arteriosclerosis is a specific type of angiopathy. Q: Why would you not add a code for diabetic foot ulcer if the patient has diabetes, arteriosclerotic PVD, and a foot ulcer? Don’t you need that code for specificity?Ī: When a patient has a foot ulcer with arteriosclerotic PVD and diabetes, multiple coding conventions apply. There is no assumed relationship between diabetes and CAD and the conditions are coded separately. Diabetes has a causal relationship with peripheral vascular disease. Q: There’s an assumed cause and effect relationship between diabetes and peripheral artery disease, but what about coronary artery disease? Do we make the link between CAD and diabetes?Ī: No.