Wiki Help w/ dx coding.

[dscham]

I would appreciate some help with some diagnosis coding. The patient has sepsis and was found to have gram positive cocci in clusters resembling staph and gram negative bacillus. I know I would code 995.91 first,, but how would you code the rest? Thank you!

 

[mitchellde]

995.91 is second, if you look in your code book it state to code first the underlying infection, and the coding guidelines will tell you that the 995.91 is a secondary code, the first listed must always be the organism, in this case look up your gram positive result and the gram negative result code those first.