I just want to clarify something because I'm not sure if this is the correct thing to do.
I work for a specialty (cardiology) and I was told by someone higher up to only code that specialty dx's. However, sometimes a pt has renal failure or resp failure which does attribute to why the pt is being seen in the hospital. I was also told that only cardiology should be listed first but sometimes we see them only because of elevated trop.. which is an unspecified abnormal serum testing code...so not really cardiology (which I was also told not to use)
I just wanted some opinions on this.
I work for a specialty (cardiology) and I was told by someone higher up to only code that specialty dx's. However, sometimes a pt has renal failure or resp failure which does attribute to why the pt is being seen in the hospital. I was also told that only cardiology should be listed first but sometimes we see them only because of elevated trop.. which is an unspecified abnormal serum testing code...so not really cardiology (which I was also told not to use)
I just wanted some opinions on this.