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Alternate Terms and Nonspecific Diagnoses

Published on Mon Jun 13, 2022

Question: Encounter notes indicate that the provider treated a patient with “blood-stained sputum.” I cannot find a diagnosis code that lines up with this phrase. Can you help? Michigan Subscriber Answer: The diagnosis code you want for this condition is R04.2 (Hemoptysis). While you won’t find an ICD-10 code that directly tracks to R04.2, “blood-stained sputum” is listed is a synonym for [...]
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