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ICD-10 Q&A: Coding Diabetes

Question: I’m seeing a lot of physicians assigning diabetes with hyperglycemia for “uncontrolled” diabetes.  Somehow this doesn’t seem right.  Could someone explain to me what the criteria for hyperglycemia is?

Answer: Hyperglycemia has no strict definition and varies from patient to patient in different situations.  Anything over a blood glucose over 100 can be considered “hyperglycemia”.  In practice...

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