AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2003 Third Quarter

Admission for Postoperative Management

The following advice supercedes that provided in Coding Clinic, First Quarter 1996, pages 8-9, and March-April 1985, pages 10-11. Many hospitals have contacted the Cooperating Parties for ICD-9-CM requesting clarification and simplification of the instructions provided for coding patients who receive outpatient surgery and then are subsequently admitted as inpatients to the same hospital for continuing care. In reviewing past advice, it was determined that new and more consistent advice was needed. The following coding advice should be used by hospitals to assign principal diagnoses when a patient receives surgery in the hospital's outpatient surgery department and is subsequently...

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