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Coding Recommendations - Feature Article 05/15/00
   

Procedure Practice
    

Using ICD-9-CM and CPT-4, assign codes for diagnoses and procedure(s) described in the discharge summaries below.

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  1. A Type I diabetic patient with diabetic nephropathy was seen in an outpatient dialysis unit for hemodialysis. The physician also indicated chronic renal failure in his diagnostic statement.
     
  2. A patient was admitted with postpartum acute renal failure 2 days after delivering twins.
     
  3. A patient was admitted for acute tubular necrosis with benign essential hypertension.
     
  4. The physician's final diagnosis is documented as end-stage renal disease with malignant hypertension.
     
  5. A patient with established hypertensive renal sclerosis was admitted for acute renal failure and treated with dialysis.

    
 

  

Using the examples above, do your own coding and then compare it with our recommendations.

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