Hello All,
When trying to appropriately code for patients that have been deemed as having a subacute lower limb arterial thrombus (patients with onset symptoms of greater than 14 days but less than 6 months) that will need to be treated by mechanical arterial thrombectomy, how would one code for this? I see there is an ICD-10 code of I74.3 (Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of the lower extremities) but this does not indicate if the patient is deemed as being acute, subacute, or chronic. If there is not a specified code, would there be a combination of codes that could easily determine the classification of the disease state? The goal is to try to identify this patient population for a retrospective clinical study using de-identified data where I will not have access to medical records that indicate the severity of the patient.
Any guidance with this is very appreciated!
When trying to appropriately code for patients that have been deemed as having a subacute lower limb arterial thrombus (patients with onset symptoms of greater than 14 days but less than 6 months) that will need to be treated by mechanical arterial thrombectomy, how would one code for this? I see there is an ICD-10 code of I74.3 (Embolism and thrombosis of arteries of the lower extremities) but this does not indicate if the patient is deemed as being acute, subacute, or chronic. If there is not a specified code, would there be a combination of codes that could easily determine the classification of the disease state? The goal is to try to identify this patient population for a retrospective clinical study using de-identified data where I will not have access to medical records that indicate the severity of the patient.
Any guidance with this is very appreciated!
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