Saturday, October 18, 2014

ICD-10 Testing of ICD-9 E codes ( E codes can not be a Primary Diagnosis Code)

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ICD-9 E codes are external cause of  injury codes and in ICD-9 claims processing system these codes can not be  used as Primary Codes. If submitted as E codes then this has to be denied. Therefor corresponding X-walk of all this ICD-9 E codes to ICD-10 codes has to be testing as a part of ICD-10 testing.

There are so many ICD-9 E codes and here are  first 20 of the X-walk based on Gems tool.

ICD-9 Codes ICD-10 Codes
E0000      Y990      
E0001      Y991      
E0002      Y992      
E0008      Y998      
E0009      Y999      
E0010      Y9301     
E0011      Y9302     
E0020      Y9311     
E0021      Y9312     
E0022      Y9313     
E0023      Y9314     
E0024      Y9315     
E0025      Y9316     
E0026      Y9317     
E0027      Y9318     
E0028      Y9319     
E0029      Y9319     
E0030      Y9321     
E0031      Y9322     
E0032      Y9323     

Test your ICD-10 system to ensure that all ICD-10 external cause of entry claims denied when used as Primary Diagnosis codes.

There are also significant number of E-codes that are no longer valid in ICD-10 world( orphan codes), see my previous post for such codes and its impact.

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