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Can code E40, Kwashiorkor or code E42, Marasmic kwashiorkor, be assigned to capture a diagnosis of severe malnutrition?
...No, do not a...
An infant was born at 37 weeks and five days gestation via low transverse cesarean section. The provider’s diagnostic statement listed, “Late preterm infant.” The ICD-10-CM does not provide a...
Do not assig...
A patient presents due to acute gastrointestinal bleed (GI). An esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) was performed, which showed gastric ulcers as well as portal hypertension. The physician...
It would be ...
A patient, who has a past medical history of spinal stroke with residual bilateral lower extremity paralysis, now presents with abdominal pain. The physician documents “Spinal stroke of unk...
There is cur...
How is a persistent postoperative fistula coded? When referencing the Alphabetic Index, the coder is instructed as follows:
Fistula
postoperative, persistent T8...
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The patient has a history of bowel perforation and obstruction, and is status post complex abdominal surgery due to intestinal anastomotic leak. She was transferred to the long-term care hospital (...
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The patient delivers a baby outside of the hospital. She is admitted to the obstetric unit and expels the placenta at the hospital. How is the expulsion of the placenta captured in ICD-10-PCS?
...The placenta...
A patient with critical limb ischemia presented with thrombosis of her previous popliteal artery bypass with rest pain of the right lower leg. She underwent an open bypass of the common femoral art...
ICD-10-PCS T...
A patient, who had recently undergone right mastectomy with immediate breast reconstruction using a tissue expander and AlloDerm, is readmitted for treatment of skin necrosis at the mastectomy site...
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A pediatric patient with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) presented for Senning procedure, in which a baffle or flap of atrial tissue is created to direct blood flow to the pulmonary veins...
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