SRENEECAMERON
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I am a student wanting to get into specialty cardiology coding. My teacher gave us a case where a patient came in and whose post op diagnosis was arteriosclerotic heart disease. The MD performed a coronary artery bypass graft X 5. I coded the CPT codes correctly but when it came to the ICD-9 code I put 429.2 and my teacher's answer was 414.00. We discussed the differences between the two codes and she could understand where I came up with the 429.2. The thing we could not understand was the difference between cardiovascular disease and heart disease. The definition in the medical dictionary was redunant so we came to a conclusion that either one of us could be correct. Could someone help me to figure out what would have been the correct code. I want to make sure I understand the difference so that when I run across this type of scenerio again I will know the difference.![Confused :confused: :confused:](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)