This is what we do.įor more code comparisons across ICD versions, click here. While the eventual transition to ICD-11 will doubtless provide challenges, it is the sort of challenge we are ready for. Visit the WHO website to browse ICD-11 codes or use the ICD-11 coding tool. Though the syncope codes look different, not much has changed and clinical documentation specificity remains critical for consistent coding in either version of ICD. For both classifications, the Syncope code represents the general symptom of fainting or blacking out temporarily, but if clinical documentation specifies the cause of the syncope, such as heat syncope for example (ICD-11: NF01.1 ICD-10-CM: T67.1), the more specific heat syncope code would be used instead. In ICD-10-CM, code R55 is in chapter 18 (Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified).īoth classifications also include a list of more specific conditions that should be coded instead, if supported by clinical documentation. In ICD-11, code category MG45 is in chapter 21 (Symptoms, signs or clinical findings, not elsewhere classified).
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