Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, COBGC, writes that it’s not unusual for an outpatient coder to advance their career by diving into inpatient coding.
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CE Articles | | Utilizing clinical indicators: Refine reporting, queries for pneumonia and more | | Inpatient coders know that clinical indicators for certain conditions frequently require greater completeness or specificity in ICD-10-CM for which a concurrent or retrospective query is often required. This article will review clinical indicators and query opportunities for common respiratory conditions such as pneumonia, respiratory failure, and asthma. |
| Q&A: Reporting CKD and hypertension in ICD-10-CM | | Q: I’ve been told that if there are clinical indicators to support that chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the etiology of a patient’s hypertension, an ICD-10-CM code from category I15.- (secondary hypertension) would be assigned. Since codes from category I12.- (hypertensive chronic kidney disease) also capture CKD with hypertension, what is the best code category to be reporting from? |
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SelectCoder Tip of the Week | | Conditions classifiable to ICD-10-CM code category L76.- (intraoperative and postprocedural complications of skin and subcutaneous tissue) are classifiable as intraoperative and postprocedural complications. These conditions should only be assigned when diagnostic statements clearly indicate that the condition is a complication of a procedure. Interested in more coding tips and claim validation tools? Click here to sign up for a demo or to learn more about SelectCoder. | | |
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