List of ICD10 Diagnoses we don't code

See also: List of CCI procedures we don't code
for the list of old Dxs we don't code, see List of Diagnoses we don't code

Might help resolve these: ICD10_Diagnosis_List.

Dxs Collectors have asked about

• hypoalbuminemia as a medical sign? It is fairly common with differing etiologies and sometimes treated with HSA replacement on medical units. Pamela Piche 10:25, 2018 May 22 (CDT)
  • AG REPLY --- now we do. it's Hypoalbuminemia, severe which we'll consider to be <=29 g/L

• Septic Emboli: no specific code even though it is a very significant problems with endocarditis patients which can cause widespread clotting to any blood vessels which causes strokes, ischemia to many organs, etc.
• (AG REPLY -- the way to construct septic embolism/emboli is to COMBINE the code for the type of embolism (e.g. pulmonary, cerebral, renal artery) + Infectious disease NOS}}

• Vasculitis: only options are Vasculitis limited to skin, NOS or Necrotizing vasculopathy/vasculitis, NOS
  • AG REPLY -- "vasculitis" is not a disease. It's a category of diseases, and the items that ARE included in ICD10 cover all types, even though the specific disorders don't always include the word vasculitis:

Polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) Churg-Strauss syndrome (eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis [EGPA], allergic granulomatous angiitis) Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome) Goodpasture syndrome (hypersensitivity angiitis) Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) Wegener's granulomatosis Takayasu's arteritis (aortic arch syndrome) Giant cell arteritis/temporal arteritis Microscopic polyangiitis/polyarteritis Necrotizing vasculopathy/vasculitis, NOS Systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE, lupus) Dermatomyositis/polymyositis Scleroderma or CREST syndrome (systemic sclerosis) Sjogren's syndrome (Sicca syndrome) Collagen-vascular overlap syndrome Behcet's disease Polymyalgia rheumatica Collagen-vascular disease, NOS

• Intra-abdominal abscess: only options are intestine, anus, liver, peritonitis. No pancreatic abscess (do have pancreatitis and pseudocyst).
  • AG REPLY: there was an error, now fixed. Pancreatitis, acute NOS includes pancreatic abscess other than pseudocyst.

• Medication/therapy non-compliance...I see the need for some reflection of this issue in a diagnostic code as I have frequent admission/ re-admissions for non-compliance with medications and/or therapies especially dialysis.--Llemoine 14:31, 2018 February 22 (CST)
  • For this, just use Medical noncompliance

• Intrauterine death with chorioamnionitis. Could use Medical abortion, with complication and link it to bacterial infection NOS but this still does not deal with the intrauterine death as the problem. --LKolesar 10:11, 2018 April 20 (CDT)
  • Is Missed abortion what you are looking for? }}
• meth/methamphetamine related dxs - I recently had this on one of my patients and I ended up using psychoactive substance NOS, chronic abuse/dependence/addiction. When I googled meth, it came up as a psychoactive drug.--LKolesar 11:52, 2018 February 13 (CST) }}
• list of pages that need to be updated to mention meth/methamphetamine if we want it coded so. Ttenbergen 19:12, 2018 April 10 (CDT)

Dxs that we have considered and decided not to code

• Muscle Spasm
• Mild cognitive impairment/decline
  • There are options here, one could decide to use, as appropriate: Encephalopathy, NOS or Encephalopathy, septic or metabolic or Brain disorder, NOS. However, this is such a vague and variable term, that it's rarely appropriate to code it in the absence of a specific disorder/disease.