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Are we to assume that ICD-9-CM guidelines not included in ICD-10-CM will not be valid beginning when ICD-10-CM is implemented? For example, ICD-9-CM guideline Section I.C8.a.4, “Acute exacerbatio...
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The patient is a 61-year-old man who was diagnosed with familial amyloid polyneuropathy. Because of the gradual increase in the severity of his disease, he underwent liver transplantation. Since hi...
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Patient is a 72-year-old man with right anterior fourth rib low grade chondrosarcoma who underwent resection of a 9 cm. segment of the right fourth rib and reconstruction of anterior chest wall usi...
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A 59-year-old male patient was admitted to the hospital due to an acute transmural myocardial infarction of the anterior wall. A week after admission, while the patient was still in the hospital, h...
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A 66-year-old male patient was discharged from the hospital after being hospitalized for a week for treatment of an acute transmural myocardial infarction of the anterior wall. A week after his dis...
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In ICD-10-CM codes K50.014, K50.114, K50.814 and K50.914 are used to identify Crohn’s disease with intestinal abscess. When a patient presents with Crohn’s disease of the small intestine with a...
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What are the correct ICD-10-PCS codes for insertion/replacement/revision of totally subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator, and its various components?
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A patient fell and sustained a fracture of his left wrist but did not seek medical treatment for some time. He now seeks treatment for the first time and he is diagnosed with malunion of closed fra...
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We appreciate the guidance provided for codes from category G81, Hemiplegia and hemiparesis, and subcategories, G83.1, Monoplegia of lower limb, G83.2, Monoplegia of upper limb, and G83.3, Monopleg...
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Physicians often document twins as fetus A and fetus B. However, the fetal extensions in chapter 15, Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, for codes related to complications of multiple gestati...
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