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Should code Z51.5, Encounter for palliative care, be assigned for patients who do not have a terminal disease, but are receiving comfort care for a serious illness?
...Yes. Code Z5...
Please clarify correct code assignment for critical limb ischemia. There are no entries in the Index to Diseases for this condition and coding professionals may arrive at different codes. The Index...
Critical lim...
ICD-10-CM Official Coding and Reporting Guidelines for coding COVID-19 (April 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020 version) used to allow coding of confirmed cases on the basis of “presumptive test...
A presumptiv...
A patient with prostate cancer presents for a robotic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy. Pneumoperitoneum was established and the abdomen was insufflated. The robotic trocars were then placed in ...
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A patient is diagnosed with bilateral lower sacroiliac degenerative joint disease (DJD). When referencing the Index to Diseases under Degenerative, joint disease, ICD-10-CM directs the coding profe...
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What is the appropriate diagnosis code for long-term (current) use of a topical intranasal steroid, such as Flonase®? Even though it is administered intranasal, would Flonase® be considered an in...
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A patient with a history of acute myeloblastic leukemia presented with an intracranial recurrence. An Ommaya reservoir with ventricular catheter was placed for the intrathecal delivery of medicatio...
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A patient who is diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy status post spinal fusion, presented for insertion of an intraspinal Ommaya reservoir via laminectomy for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) infusion ...
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A patient with a complicated past medical history is admitted for severe sepsis due to ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The VAP is due to Escherichia coli and methicillin susceptible Staphylo...
The VAP is t...
The patient, who is a type 2 diabetic, presents with Fournier’s gangrene. The Alphabetic Index under the main term “diabetes” provides a subentry “with gangrene.” Does this subentry inclu...
No, Fournier...