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Should bleeding due to therapeutic anticoagulant be coded as a hemorrhagic disorder (category D68)?
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This patient underwent an emergency ileocecectomy. The patient’s stay was complicated by postoperative coagulopathy and intra-abdominal hemorrhage due to prasugrel and aspirin taken as prescribed...
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A patient with a history of stress urinary incontinence presents for pubovaginal sling placement. What is the appropriate ICD-10-PCS code for this procedure? Specifically, we are not sure what the ...
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A 19-month-old child was admitted for repair of severe subvalvar and valvar pulmonary stenosis, fenestrated secundum atrial septal defect and patent foramen ovale. A pulmonary valvotomy was perform...
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What is the appropriate code assignment for a newborn diagnosed with a sacral dimple?
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The instructional note at category M50, Cervical disc disorders states, “Code to the most superior level of disorder.” Coders at our facility are trying to interpret this instruction for assign...
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What is the appropriate diagnosis code assignment for laryngopharyngeal reflux disease?
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A 69-year-old patient with nonresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), status post radioembolization, presented with two weeks of progressive hyperbilirubinemia. He underwent endoscopic retrograd...
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A patient, who is status post creation of a neobladder due to invasive bladder cancer, presents with gross hematuria and undergoes surgical biopsy. The biopsy of the neobladder is positive for poor...
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A 58-year-old female presented with right superior hypophyseal aneurysm and was taken to interventional radiology for stent assisted coil embolization of the aneurysm. Provider documentation states...
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