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There are consultants advising clients that the pathology reports must be reviewed before assigning a code from category D12, Benign neoplasm of colon, rectum, anus and anal canal, for an outpatien...
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Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM, Second Quarter 2010, page 3, provided advice to sequence gross hematuria as the principal diagnosis for a patient, who was currently under treatment for prostat...
The Official...
Does the advice published in Coding Cl...
No, the inst...
Does the instructional note providing sequencing guidance at code J44.0, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with acute lower respiratory infection, apply also to ventilator associated pneumonia?...
No, the inst...
The patient has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with asthma. Is code J44.9, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, unspecified, sufficient, or is an additional code needed for the asth...
If the speci...
When a patient with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has an acute exacerbation of COPD, is the asthma reported as exacerbated or unspecified?
...If the healt...
What is the appropriate code assignment for a diagnosis of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with acute exacerbation of moderate persistent asthma?
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When referencing respiratory distress in the alphabetic index, there are subentries for adult and child, both leading to code J80, Acute respiratory distress syndrome. If the physician does not doc...
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When a patient presents for speech therapy for a language disorder that is due to an underlying condition, which code is sequenced as the first-listed diagnosis? For example, a four-year-old diagno...
The speech p...