ICD-10 Coding:
Coding Pneumonia in the ED? Check This Guide
Published on Thu Jun 10, 2021
Your best bet is to nail down the cause of pneumonia first, experts say. When patients present to the ED and are diagnosed with pneumonia, your coding choices are vast, with over 50 codes in the J12-J18.9 range. However, the vast majority of those codes require you to know more about the patient’s condition than the fact that the doctor [...]
