Midrange CHF
Good Afternoon! We are starting to have documentation of midrange EF in addition to HFpEF and HFrEF with our CHF patients. Anyone with an EF of 40-50% has the CHF documented as HFmrEF. How are you capturing the "midrange" or are you initiating a query? I am not sure how to compliantly query to get a diagnosis that is able to be coded. I was looking for some input before meeting with cardiology.
Any insight would be appreciated!
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At our facility this has been placed in a guideline format for coding as
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Thank you. We are actually having them document HFmrEF so we are in a bit of a conundrum.
There is not a specific code for midrange. You should query for diastolic, systolic or combined forms. The term midrange has no reference in ICD-10 and should not be coded to diastolic, systolic or combined.
P. Evans, RHIA, CCDS