Coding for BCBS--Follow-up

Jun 03, 2009

Post Date: 6/3/09 10:05 am
Sounds 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

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