Proper ICD-10-CM Reporting for OA
A version of this article was first published December 11, 2020, by HCPro's Q: We have an elderly patient admitted to our hospital who is also presenting with osteoarthritis (OA) of the right knee. Since we don’t report OA very often, we are having trouble determining if we should code primary or secondary OA. How can we determine primary versus secondary OA, and how would it be reported in ICD-10-CM? A: OA, or degenerative joint disease, is identified in categories M15-M19 of the ICD-10-CM manual. This is the most common type of arthritis in the elderly. If the arthritis is ever in the s...
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