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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2006 Issue 3; Clarification
Coronary Artery Stent Stenosis
In Coding Clinic Third Quarter 2002, page 4, the question stated the patient had severe stenosis of the coronary artery stent and a new occlusion of the diagonal artery. Shouldn’t code 996.72, Complication of internal cardiac device, implant, and graft, be assigned as the principal diagnosis to describe the restenosis of the coronary stent, because the question does not specify this condition was caused by further progression of the patient’s coronary atherosclerosis?
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