Every reasonable effort has been taken to ensure the information is accurate and useful.Director, Clinical Documentation Improvement ProgramĪdelaide M. This material was compiled to share information. She also served as a facilitator at AHIMA's 85th National Convention in Atlanta Georgia.
She is also a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and has previously served as the Co-chair for AHIMA's Leadership Team. Susie has previously served as the President of the Alabama Association of Health Information Management (AAHIM) on the Board of Directors and currently serves as the Education/Coding Roundtable Chair. She also worked for Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation (AQAF) as a coding reviewer/auditor before joining the team at Medical Management Plus, Inc. Susie has worked in the coding field for over 30 years and has worked as a coder, coding supervisor, and corporate coding manager for a large multi-facility system in Birmingham. Susie James, RHIT, CCS, is the Manager of Inpatient Coding Services at MMP, Inc. Both these terms are often used at the same time and generally mean the same thing. These are the nerves that connect your spinal cord to the rest of your body. Polyneuropathy means multiple nerve damage is causing peripheral neuropathy. Under the code category for E08, there is an Excludes1 note for several conditions, including type 2 diabetes mellitus.Į11.4 Type 2 diabetes mellitus with neurological complicationsĮ11.42 Type 2 diabetes mellitus with diabetic polyneuropathy When we ‘see Diabetes, polyneuropathy’, it takes us to:ĭiabetes, diabetic due to underlying condition with polyneuropathy E08.42 Notice that (peripheral) is a modifier for polyneuropathy
In order to capture Diabetes Mellitus, we need to ‘see also Polyneuropathy’.
Peripheral (nerve) (see also Polyneuropathy) G62.9 According to the ICD-10-CM Code Book, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Peripheral Neuropathy codes to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Polyneuropathy (E11.42). How do you code Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Peripheral Neuropathy? Is Polyneuropathy the same as Peripheral Neuropathy in Diabetes?
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