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Is it appropriate to utilize patient self-reported documentation to assign codes for social determinants of health, such as information found in categories Z55-Z65, Persons with potential health ha...
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Please define “clinicians” in the context of the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, which allow code assignment for social determinants of health codes based on me...
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A 64-year-old female, who was diagnosed with ampullary adenoma, presents for open standard Whipple procedure. Due to the malignant behavior of this tumor, a diagnostic laparoscopy was performed fir...
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A 77-year-old female presents due to carcinoma of the head of pancreas. The patient had a previous history of cholecystectomy twenty years ago. During surgery, the provider noted that the tumor was...
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A 65-year-old female, who had previously undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy and diagnosed with ampullary adenocarcinoma, presented for a Whipple procedure. During surgery, a midline abdominal i...
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A patient with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the pancreas was admitted for surgery. After removal of the central pancreas, the decision was made to perform a pancreaticogastrostomy. The neck of the p...
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We have been advised by an outside source that we are to assign code B20, Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease, for every patient who is HIV positive and is treated for any condition that is ...
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Current literature states that cryptococcal meningitis is a major HIV-related infection. When a patient who is HIV positive presents due to this condition, is it appropriate to assume a linkage bet...
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A patient with a history of HIV presents with recurrent pneumonia. When a patient has a history of HIV and presents due to recurrent pneumonia, which code is more appropriate, B20 or Z21? Is recurr...
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