AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2002 Third Quarter

Acute Renal Failure Secondary to BPH and Urinary Obstruction

Note: As of October 1, 2003, code 600.0 has been expanded to the fifth digit level to further specify hypertrophy (benign) of prostate to include with or without urinary obstruction. On reassessment of advice published in Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 2001, based on the documentation for acute renal failure secondary to benign prostatic hypertrophy (BPH) with obstructive uropathy, the acute renal failure was the more significant problem, which led to the admission. The reason for the admission was for treatment of acute renal failure. Therefore, assign code 584.9, Acute renal failure, unspecified, as the principal diagnosis. Code...

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