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A 60-year-old female was diagnosed with acute kidney injury (AKI) due to acute tubular necrosis (ATN) secondary to contrast nephropathy. What are the appropriate code assignments for acute kidney i...
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What is the diagnosis code for a stage 3 gluteal cleft pressure ulcer? Are two codes required in order to capture the correct location since the gluteal cleft appears to be between both sides of th...
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A patient presents for outpatient surgery for excision of a lesion from the left temple. The provider documents that the lesion is an inflamed inverted follicular keratosis. What is the appropriate...
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A patient had an outpatient bone dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan. The test result finding is documented as “low bone density consistent with osteopenia.” What is the diagnosis code...
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A patient with known coronary artery disease had a diagnostic heart catheterization and coronary angiogram due to persistent chest pain and rising troponins. During left heart catheterization, the ...
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A patient with a retrorectal mass presented for surgical excision. The provider documented that the mass was a tailgut cyst. Would code Q85.8, Other phakomatoses, not elsewhere classified, be appro...
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The patient is a 58-year-old with celiac artery stenosis (CAS) who underwent balloon angioplasty of the stenosis. ICD-10-CM classifies CAS to code I77.4, Celiac artery compression syndrome; however...
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An obstetric patient who delivered at Hospital A is transferred to Hospital B to accompany the infant’s transfer to the intensive care unit (NICU). At hospital B, the patient is provided maternal...
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A five-year-old female with profound developmental delays and epilepsy has chronic static encephalopathy secondary to epilepsy and epileptic encephalopathy. In the Alphabetic Index, under the main ...
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