by kkluglein | Jun 15, 2022 | Blog, Webinar FAQs
Q: When a patient has sepsis due to COVID-19, is the sepsis code always sequenced first? A: No. Sequencing depends on whether the sepsis was present on admission and meets the definition of principal diagnosis. If a patient presented with a COVID-19 infection and...
by Kristi Pollard | Jun 15, 2022 | Blog, Webinar FAQs
Q: Can you code “mild” valve conditions from an echocardiogram report? A: Before assigning a code for a valvular condition, regardless of the documented severity, the coder should determine if the condition meets the definition of an additional diagnosis as outlined...
by Kristi Pollard | May 18, 2022 | Blog, Webinar FAQs
Q: What is the difference between the proximal humerus and proximal shaft of humerus? Which part of the humerus should be coded? A: Proximal shaft means the upper end of the shaft, but not quite to the proximal end of the bone. A fracture of the proximal shaft is...
by Kristi Pollard | Aug 31, 2021 | Blog, Webinar FAQs
Q: Would you code long term use of insulin and hypoglycemic as well as presence of insulin pump? A: The code categories for diabetes, other than category I10 for type 1 diabetes, has a “use additional code” note indicating that the type of control (i.e., long term...
by Kristi Pollard | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, Webinar FAQs
Q: O48.0 reads that it is for pregnancy over 40 completed weeks, so it seems that 40 weeks and 0 days would not be post term. There was a statement that post term is greater than or equal to 40 weeks. Are we interpreting that correctly? A: Post-dates pregnancy is...
