COPD and Pneumonia - Good News

jmccorkl@stanfordhealthcare.orgjmccorkl@stanfordhealthcare.org
edited August 2017 in Clinical & Coding
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/icd/10cmguidelines_fy2018_final.pdf

Coming soon ... 
Section I.A. Conventions for the ICD-10-CM
     17. “Code also” note
          A “code also” note instructs that two codes may be required to fully describe a condition,
          but this note does not provide sequencing direction.

As I understand it, this will resolve the quirky COPD/PNA sequencing issue we have now.  Yay!  :)
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  • rpinson@hcq1.comrpinson@hcq1.com
    You are correct about COPD/PNA problem. My understanding is that code J44.0 (COPD with lower respiratory tract infection) is being removed from ICD-10-CM for 2018.

    Richard D. Pinson, MD, FACP, CCS
    Pinson & Tang
    CDI Educators and Advisers
    Authors of the CDI Pocket Guide
    www.pinsonandtang.com


  • afrady@hcpro.comafrady@hcpro.com

    Thanks, this just makes me that much more interested to get my hands on a 2018 code book.

    I have been and outspoken critic of this since day 1, as has most of you I know.

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