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How should dehydration with hypernatremia and dehydration with hyponatremia be coded?
Codes E87.0 and E87.1 seem to capture hypernatremia and hyponatremia respectively but not dehydration. Th...
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What is the appropriate body part character when a diagnostic lumbar tap is performed to test for meningitis? When you go to the drainage table (Table 009), there are a couple of options that seem ...
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How should an aspiration via a lumbar drain port be reported? What body part character should we use for the lumbar drain port?
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The patient had an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and underwent endovascular repair. A stent graft was introduced via a transfemoral catheter approach and deployed at the target vessel. How shoul...
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The patient has a history of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) that was previously repaired using an endovascular graft system. He had developed a type 1 endoleak and was admitted to the hospital for...
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The patient was admitted to the hospital for surgical treatment of an ascending thoracic aortic and transverse arch aneurysm, and coronary artery disease. The patient underwent repair of the aneury...
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We understand that there are no plans to translate all previous issues of Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM into ICD-10-CM/PCS. However, we are wondering if we can use the clinical information pu...
Clinical inf...