ICD 10 Coding Alert
Test Your Emergent Condition Knowledge with These 5 Questions
Can you select the right codes to report these frequent ED encounters? Fractures, hypertensive crises, and acute myocardial infarctions may be commonplace in most emergency departments (EDs), but each situation poses unique problems for coders. From physician notes that may lack specificity to the large number of possible ICD-10 code choices, each encounter offers the possibility for confusion and even error. So, to keep you on your ED coding toes, take a look at the following questions, and when you think you know the answers, and compare them with those of our experts. Question 1: Which section of ICD-10 applies for a hypertensive crisis? Question 2: Which code should I report for an unspecified acute myocardial infarction (AMI)? Question 3: A patient presents with a pressure ulcer of the foot. Which ICD-10 code applies to this? Question 4: The physician documents a patient in "respiratory distress." Which code applies? Question 5: A patient presents with sinus pain and the doctor determines she has "acute ethmoidal sinusitis and/or ethmoidal sinonasal polyposis." Which code applies?
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