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A patient stopped taking his prescribed dose of Amlodipine after running out of the antihypertensive medication several days ago. The provider documented that the patient’s blood pressure was sta...
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My facility has interpreted new HIV coding guideline I.C.1.a.2.i “History of HIV managed by medication” to mean that code B20, HIV disease, should be reported for any HIV positive patient on an...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented class 3 obesity as one of the patient’s diagnoses. Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2022, pa...
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An adult patient presented for follow-up of multiple medical conditions. The provider documented morbid obesity and class 3 obesity. Previous Coding Clinic advice instructed that morbid ob...
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A patient with a recently diagnosed 16-week intrauterine fetal demise, presented at 20 weeks gestation for suction dilation and curettage. After the procedure, the patient experienced hemorrhagic s...
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A 59-year-old patient with a history of aortic valve stenosis, status post bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement, is admitted due to persistent fatigue, chills, night sweats, and abnormal labs. Ca...
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A patient with known coronary artery disease (CAD) who is status post coronary artery intervention with multiple stent insertions, was admitted due to an acute non-ST-elevation myocardial infarctio...
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A patient was diagnosed with streptococcus viridans bacteremia and endocarditis of a transplanted aortic valve. Codes T82.6XXA, Infection and inflammatory reaction due to cardiac valve prosthesis, ...
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