Hyperglycemia in a diabetic in ICD-9-CM Coding Questions Forum

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Hyperglycemia in a diabetic

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rosenancers	Hyperglycemia in a diabetic	Lead	[-]
Posts: 12 Oct 23 07 1:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Would you use 2500X code or the complication 2508X or 2509X? Thank you. I believe that the first code 2500X is correct since hyperglycemia is why they are diabetic anyway. Thank you.
wildfire68	Re: Hyperglycemia in a diabetic	#1	[-]
Posts: 100 Mar 10 08 1:01 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You would only code the Diabetes code
Jane1	Re: Hyperglycemia in a diabetic	#2	[-]
Posts: 82 Mar 11 08 4:16 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	You might read the official guideline instruction on diabetic coding. They are probably printed in the front of your ICD 9 book. You might want to check with the doctor if that means uncontrolled so that you know what the last digit should be. j