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Hit the Right DRG for Pyelonephritis

Published on Thu Dec 10, 2015

Question: A patient is admitted with complaints of left flank pain and fever. He is diagnosed as having pyelonephritis. Which DRG should he be assigned? Texas Subscriber Answer: The case is of pyelonephritis. The ICD-10-CM code for this is N10 (Acute tubulo-interstitial nephritis). He does not have any MCC, and pyelonephritis comes under the major diagnostic category MDC 11 (Diseases and disorders of [...]
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