Common diseases in family practice and their ICD-9-CM codes

Family Practice Spec. ICD Codes

Much of the treatment scope associated with the specialty family practice revolves around prevention. In other words the family practice provider often sees individuals when they are not ill at all but need health care access to determine normal values and a general state of health for developmental purposes in children and sometimes for school or vocational reasons in adults. Family practice often sees multiple minor injuries as well. Family Practice can also manage as a primary care provider many chronic conditions or disorders with or without intervention of a specialist, such as diabetes mellitus types 1 and 2, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, heart diseases of various kinds and most minor infections. Below is a list of just a few diagnostic codes for some of these commonly seen disorders and/or cases seen in the family practice specialty.

Routine Physicals exams for Adults

Routine general medical examination at a health care facility V70.0

Wellchild Exams

Routine infant or child health check V20.2

Injuries such as sprains and strains of various body parts are often seen in the family practice specialty, and most often as a screen for needed additional treatment, like in the case of strains and sprains people often see a FPP to make sure the situation is acute and does not involve a break of bone or serious ligament or other tissue damage.

Sprains and strains of shoulder and upper arm 840

Sprains and strains of elbow and forearm 841

Sprains and strains of wrist and hand 842

Sprains and strains of hip and thigh 843

Sprains and strains of knee and leg 844

Sprains and strains of ankle and foot 845

Sprains and strains of sacroiliac region 846

Sprains and strains of other and unspecified parts of back 847

Other and ill-defined sprains and strains 848

Hypertension, high blood pressure is a commonly treated disorder in family practice and is not always identified specifically by type or cause, unless the hypertension is associated with imminent risk or is uncontrollable by traditional means, and then the family care doctor may refer the patient to a specialist for further evaluation.

Hypertension

Essential hypertension 401

Hypertension, malignant 401.0

Hypertension, benign 401.1

Hypertension, Unspecified (401.9)

Hyperlipidemia, high cholesterol is one of the more commonly seen disorders associated with family practice in large part due to its recent screening emphasis and its link to cardiovascular disease and stroke. The disorder is not always predicated but can be using these type of codes, specific to the type or cause of the disorder.

Hyperlipidemia 272.4

carbohydrate-induced 272.1

combined 272.2

endogenous 272.1

exogenous 272.3

fat-induced 272.3

Diabetes ICD-9 codes are often predicated with information regarding the state of the disease but these are the two basic codes

Diabetes mellitus type 2 250.x0