Does anyone know how to code a plastic bronchitis exacerbation (patient coughing up casts and admitted for this reaosn) in a patient with hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
I would use J20.9 Acute bronchitis, unspecified. As there is no identified organism. Plastic bronchitis is also known as fibrinous bronchitis, which is included in the J20.xx bronchitis code. I would also capture he HLHS as that condition is only palliatively treated unless the patient had a heart transplant. Hope this helps.
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I would use J20.9 Acute bronchitis, unspecified. As there is no identified organism. Plastic bronchitis is also known as fibrinous bronchitis, which is included in the J20.xx bronchitis code. I would also capture he HLHS as that condition is only palliatively treated unless the patient had a heart transplant. Hope this helps.
Karen Bridgeman