VAP in a neonate

700g 26 week newborn who develops Ventilator associated Pneumonia at DOL 21. How would you code this?

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  • I was struggling with this because the encoder took me to P278 & there is an excludes 1 note for J95851 and P278. P278 doesn't seem like the right code but I don't understand why there is an excludes 1 note.

    Thanks for your input!

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