Defining the 3 goals of palliative care. After finishing medical school and my residency in internal medicine, I undertook an additional year of training in a field called palliative care. Patients who notice my background sometimes ask me what exactly palliative care means. Itâs really a simple concept. Palliative care is helping people with a serious illness have the best possible quality of life. Itâs enabling sick patients to make the most of the time they have left to live.
Answer: Youâre correct that you would typically use V20.2 (Health supervision of infant or child; routine infant or child health check) for a preventive medicine exam of a 17-year-old. In fact, the designation that appears in the ICD-9 manual next to V20.2 supports using the diagnosis code when the patientâs age is between 0 and 17 years.
O90.1 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2018 edition of ICD-10-CM O90.1 became effective on October 1, 2017. This is the American ICD-10-CM version of O90.1 - other international versions of ICD-10 O90.1 may differ. ICD-10-CM Coding Rules O90.1 is applicable to maternity patients aged 12 - 55 years inclusive.