Wiki Hypertension with kidney disease

[natraj21]

Hi,

Can we consider Hypertension and Unspecified Renal failure(586) as Hypertensive kidney disease?

Please help me through this.

Thanks
Natarajan Chellamuthu CPC

 

[mitchellde]

no several years ago this was fine tuned to be only those kidney diseases coded to 585.x are combined with the hypertentension for a 403.xx code.

 

[kat1940]

renal failure and benign essential hypertension

Hi I had the following scenario in my class,
Benign essential hypertension and renal failure.
My classmate coded 40310 and 585.3, I thought she might be incorrect from reading the post in here.
So does this mean that it should be coded 401.1 and 585.9?
Thanks

 

[tmlbwells]

I would use 586 for the renal failure since it doesn't state acute or chronic and 401.1 for the hypertension.