PhatMom
Coding for BCBS--Follow-up
Jun 03, 2009
Post Date: 6/3/09 10:05 amSounds like you need to have the lab resubmit your claim with a corrected diagnostic code. (Or maybe your doctor needs to do that, depending on how the lab works). Here's a list of possible diagnostic codes.
My doc usually puts "Vitamin D Deficiency" and "Intestinal Malabsorption" and "Post surgical follow up" --- I have BCBS PPO and have never had problems with full payment.
- 244.9 hypothyroidism
- 250.0 diabetes
- 265.0 Beriberi
- 265.1 Other and Unspecificed Manifestations of Thiamine Deficiency (B1)
- 266.2 cyanocobalamin deficiency (B12)
- 268 vitamin D deficiency
- 268.2 metabolic bone disease
- 269.2 hypovitaminosis
- 269.3 zinc deficiency
- 272.0 hypercholesterolemia
- 275.40 calcium deficiency
- 276.9 electrolyte and fluid disorders
- 280.9 iron-deficiency anemia
- 281.0 pernicious anemia
- 281.1 other B12 deficiency anemia
- 281.2 folate deficiency anemia
- 285.9 anemia, unspecified
- 401.9 hypertension
- 579.3 post-surgical malabsorption
- 579.8 intestinal malabsorption