Here's a medical coding article that will provide you more insight on the new diagnosis codes you will begin using with effect from October 1. When an ob-gyn tries to place an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) and meets with failure, you are often the one left in the lurch. What ICD-9 codes should you go for? The answer may depend on whose advice your payer follows. Now you can use only V25.42 (Surveillance of contraceptive methods previously prescribed; intrauterine contraceptive device). However that will change with effect from October 1 this year. You will have three new IUD encounter V codes to include: V25.11, V25.12, V25.13. In this situation, if this scenario took place after October, you would have to report V25.11. However, using V25.13 in the future can land you in a controversy. So in the future, be careful about using this code. While you will not find any correct coding initiative edit involving the insertion and removal, an IUD on the same service date, many players aren't willing to pay for both services at the same encounter. Many are skeptical that the combined code will be a valid code for the payer who only allows for the insertion rather than removal and insertion. To get the complete information on all the new diagnosis codes you will start using this October, sign up for a one-stop medical coding guide. When you do so, you'll have access to an entire medical coding article library. Specialty articles, alerts, survival guides - you'll get all these and much more on signing up for one.
