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Chapter 9:
3) Hypertensive Heart and CKD
Assign codes from combination category I13... when there is hypertension with both heart and kidney involvement.
We have a patient with hypertension and CKD Stage 3.
We are not kidney specialists and we don't want to step on the kidney specialist's toes.
If we don't want to use the code I13.. how can we document that his kidney disease is not caused by hypertension? Realistically, nobody knows.
Thanks.
3) Hypertensive Heart and CKD
Assign codes from combination category I13... when there is hypertension with both heart and kidney involvement.
We have a patient with hypertension and CKD Stage 3.
We are not kidney specialists and we don't want to step on the kidney specialist's toes.
If we don't want to use the code I13.. how can we document that his kidney disease is not caused by hypertension? Realistically, nobody knows.
Thanks.