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When a patient is admitted to a nursing home for “deconditioning,” how should this be coded?
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A resident in a long-term care facility has a diagnosis of “mental status changes.” How should this be coded?
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A patient is admitted to a long-term care facility for nonspecific reasons such as generalized weakness, debility, or deterioration (or “old age”), rather than for a specific diagnosis. What is...
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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
exace...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
The sequenci...
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 wit...
Yes, it is a...
What are the correct ICD-10-PCS codes for insertion/replacement/revision of totally
subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator, and its various components?
The existing...