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Alphabetical "Most Common Diagnoses" Lists
Every section in ICDMeister has a Most
Common Diagnoses section that lists all of the most common
(and many not-so-common) diagnoses within that subject.
Let's check it out.
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| So we're looking for
seborrheic keratosis which would be in the Dermatology
section. You'd get there by clicking Derm from the
ICDMeister home page.
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| Extra credit: Another
way to get to a given section is by using the bookmarks.
Click the Bookmark icon
at the bottom of the screen to bring up the list of
bookmarks. Click the Derm bookmark to go from wherever
you happen to be in ICDMeister directly to the Derm section. |
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| Now we're at the Derm section
of ICDMeister. You can see that Most common
diagnoses is the first thing on the list. If you
click the link it will take you to the Most Common Diagnoses
page. |
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| Here's the Most
Common Derm Diagnoses page. It is organized
alphabetically and contains 140 of the Derm codes you're
most likely to look for.
By clicking on the S link at the
top it takes us to the section with S codes.
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| OK. In the S section of
Most Common Derm Diagnoses we see seborrheic keratosis
listed. You would just click on it
to get the code. |
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| And here are the
code for seborrheic keratosis - one for inflamed SK's and
one for others.
The four clicks it took you to get here
took less than 3 seconds!
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Abbreviation and
Shortcut Index
The Abbreviations and Shortcuts Index
contains a list of more than 230 abbreviations and shortcuts
that provide another way to quickly get to the code you
need. Let's check it out.
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| To fastest way to get to the
Abbreviations and Shortcuts index, is to use a bookmark.
Click the Bookmark icon
at the bottom of the page to bring up the list of bookmarks. |
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| Choose the Abbreviations
bookmark. |
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| Now we're at the
Abbreviations and Shortcuts section of ICDMeister.
We're looking for seborrheic keratosis now so we'll go to
the S section by clicking this S link at the top of
the page. |
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| So here in the S section we
see there are two different shortcuts for seborrheic
keratosis - SK and sebK. Click on either of those to
get to the code. |
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| Here's the code. Again
it only took you four clicks and a few seconds to get to
your code.
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Search for Text
You can also find your codes by searching
the entire contents of ICDMeister for a particular text
string. This is really useful. Most searches
take less than five seconds.
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OK. To start the Search
process, we need to click the Find icon
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the toolbar at the bottom of ICDMeister. |
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| Clicking it has
brought up the Find dialog box. Now you enter any text
string that will help you find what you're looking for.
Here we've entered sebo but we
could also have entered abbreviations like sebK or
SK.
Note: To make the Find function work the
way you want it to, you need to make sure the parameters are
set to Entire document and the Range is set to
Top to Bottom as shown in the image to the right.
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| After clicking
entering the text and tapping the Find button, the program
pauses briefly and then displays the text it's found.
Here it actually found seborrheic dermatitis instead of
seborrheic keratosis. Luckily seborrheic keratosis is
right there too.
If it wasn't you'd want to click the Find
Next icon
on the toolbar to find the next occurence of sebo in
ICDMeister.
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| It's best to use
search strings that are as unique as possible. If you
search for a fairly ubiquitous string of text like ata,
you'll find hundreds of occurences (which isn't so
convenient). |
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found the code we were looking for in a matter of seconds.
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Browse by
Category and Subcategory
Last but not least, you can find your code
by browsing through the hierarchical structure of
ICDMeister. This is particularly useful for people who
are very familiar with the organizational structure of the
ICD-9-CM system (ie. if you're used to looking your codes up
in books).
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| OK. So once again we go to
the Derm section. Now we need to think a little about
where seborrheic keratosis might be. Through a process
of exclusion - it's not an infection, it's not inflammatory,
it's not a disease of nail or hair or sweat glands - we
decide to look in Other disorders.
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| Here's the section we chose and again we
need to use a bit of a process of elimination to choose
where seborrheic keratosis is most likely to be hiding.
On this page, we would choose Other dermatoses. |
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| And here it is on the Other Dermatoses
page, the code we were looking for. As you might be
able to imagine, browsing for codes becomes a lot eaier as
you become more familiar with using ICDMeister.
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| Now
you've seen the four different ways for finding the ICD-9
code you want in ICDMeister. Go ahead and give it a
try. Look for the last code you had difficulty finding
on your superbill or the code that was on the last insurance
claim that was rejected for an insufficient code.
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