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A resident returns to the LTC facility following hospital care for pneumonia. The physician’s orders
state, “continue IV antibiotics for 3 days,” after which time the resident is to have a...
Yes, the pne...
A nursing home resident is transferred to the hospital for treatment of pneumonia. She returns to the nursing home and is still receiving antibiotics for the pneumonia. However, the main reason she...
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A nursing home resident fell and was transferred to the hospital for treatment of a left wrist fracture. After inpatient surgical treatment of the fracture, he is returned to the nursing home where...
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When patients are admitted to a nursing home for convalescence following an acute illness or injury, is code Z51.89, Encounter for other specified aftercare, appropriate? How would the condition th...
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When a patient is transferred from a hospital to a nursing home for continued recovery following an acute inferior wall myocardial infarction, what is the principal diagnosis at the nursing home? W...
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When a patient is admitted to a nursing home for “deconditioning,” how should this be coded?
...Code the sym...
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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