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A patient was admitted with mild pre-eclampsia that progressed to severe pre-eclampsia during the stay. What would be the appropriate code assignment as well as the present on admission (POA) indic...
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A patient who has a history of kidney stones and appendectomy presents to the emergency department due to left lower quadrant pain. A computed tomography (CT) scan was performed which revealed pyel...
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A patient presents due to abdominal pain. At discharge, the provider documents “Acute pyelonephritis and nephrolithiasis.” When referencing pyelonephritis in the Alphabetic Index there are sube...
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A patient is admitted to the hospital and diagnosed with DiGeorge syndrome with 22Q11.2 deletion and velo-cardio-facial syndrome. What are the appropriate ICD-10-CM codes to accurately capture thes...
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A patient, who was admitted with hypoxia and pneumonia, had a diagnostic bronchoscopy, in which a distal mucous plug was suctioned from the lung. What is the correct ICD-10-CM code assignment for m...
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The patient presented with malposition of a right subclavian central venous catheter (CVC) in the right brachiocephalic vein. The catheter was removed and replaced with a right internal jugular CVC...
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A patient, who is status post left total knee arthroplasty surgery, and recent wisdom tooth extraction, is diagnosed with hematogenous left knee prosthetic joint infection. He underwent revision of...
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A patient with melena and hematemesis was diagnosed with acute on chronic blood loss anemia due to a bleeding duodenal ulcer. ICD-10-CM classifies acute blood loss anemia to code D62, Acute posthem...
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A patient presents to the emergency department in severe respiratory distress due to possible aspiration. The patient was also noted to be septic on arrival due to pneumonia and Citrobacter urinary...
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A patient with prostate cancer presented for a robotic radical prostatectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection. After removal of the prostate, it was noted that it appeared a bit raw near the right ...
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