Medical Billing Forum
Coding => Coding => : tammy39 October 22, 2010, 02:47:13 PM
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My question is we evaluated this child for speech problems and we want to reference it back to her being born to a cocain addict mother. The parents put in her history that she is adopted and was exposed to cocain as a fetus. How can we code this to show her history might affect her speech now. We can't find a code and I thought that there was a code that could be used. Would really appreciate any help that we can get.
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760.75--Noxious influences affecting fetus or newborn via placenta; cocaine.
While this is a newborn code, there is also 760.71-fetal alcohol syndrome-that I know you can use even after the baby is no longer a newborn, so it makes sense that you could use the cocaine code after the baby is no longer a newborn, too, especially as a secondary code.
~Kelli
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Could also be considered a late effect