For reimbursement claims, medical providers should use ICD-10-CM codes. Using the Cdc and Prevention, remedy for Lyme disease after diagnosis requires a primary four-week course of antibiotic therapy in the event the disease persists following your initial one month relying on antibiotics taken orally or perhaps in case of Lyme carditis where cardiovascular complications are experienced and also in case of neurological complications. Many of the insurers take advantage of the ICD-10-CM code as being a guideline to search for compensation with the treatment received. However, this becomes difficult people are encountered with continuing Lyme symptoms in the evening stipulated one month of initial treatment. Instead, CDC recognizes post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome in the eventuality of chronic Lyme disease that may cause severe tissue and disease fighting capability damages.
Since post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome currently lacks the ICD-10-CM code, Lyme disease is classed being a subcategory with subdivisions inside the ICD-10-CM manual. The subdivision codes therefore are and the ones utilized to accurately describe a patient’s symptoms which is to be used in billing.
The ICD-10-CM code for Lyme disease can be a 69.2 covering Erythema chronicum migrans a result of the infection.
Here are definitely the ICD-10 codes for Lyme disease as well as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome:
- A 69.20 C Lyme disease, unspecified Erythema chronicum migrans
- A 69.21 C Meningitis symptoms because of Lyme disease
- A 69.22 C Neurological disorders as a consequence of Lyme disease like?Polyneuropathy, Cranial neuritis, Meningoencephalitis
- A 69.23 C Arthritis as a result of Lyme disease
- A 69.29 C And also related to LD including Myopericarditis the result of LD
- A 69.8 C Other specified spirochetal infections
- A 69.9 C Spirochetal infection, unspecified
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