Does the patient have some complication or problem that is being addressed during the PP hospital visit? If not, then use Z39.0 after the delivery.When doing the DX coding for PP hospital care do you still use codes from chapter 15, or do we go back to using regular codes? Is Z39.0 appropriate the day after delivery?
Then if the patient is being evaluated for PP hypertension, they use a Chapter 15 code rather than Z39 which implies no complications at all.Hypertention...