ICD 10 Coding Alert

Try your hand at coding these queries.

Cardiology is one of the trickiest areas of diagnosis coding for many coders, even veterans. There are so many code choices, complicated by challenging anatomy in the cardiac system. Take this quick quiz to check your understanding of some key cardiology diagnoses.

Check page 21 for answers and explanations to see if you aced this quiz.

Question 1: The cardiologist documents that the patient has atherosclerotic heart disease of the native coronary artery, along with stable angina (controlled with medication). Which ICD-10 code would you report?

Question 2: The cardiologist documents that the patient has hypertensive heart and chronic kidney disease with acute systolic (congestive) heart failure and with stage 5 CKD. Which ICD-10 codes should we report?

Question 3: According to the documentation, the patient has left ventricular failure caused by hypertension. Per a note in ICD-10 manual, you must also report the type of heart failure the patient suffers from. Does the sequencing of these codes matter?

Question 4: Which ICD-10 code should you report for myocardial infarction (MI) type 5?