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A patient is admitted for treatment of spinal stenosis of the lumbar region with neurogenic claudication. How is neurogenic claudication due to lumbar spinal stenosis coded?
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The ICD-10-CM Index for Diseases lists the following: Emaciation (due to malnutrition) E41. The Tabular List of Diseases lists E41 as Nutritional Marasmus. If a physician documents Emaciation...
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Can code E40, Kwashiorkor or code E42, Marasmic kwashiorkor, be assigned to capture a diagnosis of severe malnutrition?
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An infant was born at 37 weeks and five days gestation via low transverse cesarean section. The provider’s diagnostic statement listed, “Late preterm infant.” The ICD-10-CM does not provide a...
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A patient presents due to acute gastrointestinal bleed (GI). An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed, which showed gastric ulcers as well as portal hypertension. The physician...
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A patient, who has a past medical history of spinal stroke with residual bilateral lower extremity paralysis, now presents with abdominal pain. The physician documents “Spinal stroke of unk...
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How is a persistent postoperative fistula coded? When referencing the Alphabetic Index, the coder is instructed as follows:
Fistula
postoperative, persistent T8...
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The patient has a history of bowel perforation and obstruction, and is status post complex abdominal surgery due to intestinal anastomotic leak. She was transferred to the long-term care hospital (...
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A patient, who had recently undergone right mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction using a tissue expander and AlloDerm, is readmitted for treatment of skin necrosis at the mastectomy site...
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