Pulmonology Coding Alert

ICD-10 Update:

Shift Your Focus on ABG For Apt Reporting of Acute on Chronic Respiratory Failure

Use unspecified codes when test results don’t reveal blood gas changes. When your pulmonologist diagnoses acute exacerbation of chronic respiratory failure, choose from three code choices depending on the presence of hypercapnia or hypoxia from the results of blood gas analysis. ICD-9: When your pulmonologist identifies acute exacerbation of chronic respiratory failure, you’ll report this with 518.84 (Acute and chronic [...]
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