AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1987 May - June

Cardiac Pacemaker Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs)

The cardiac pacemaker DRGs are revised as of October 1, 1987, to encompass the revised cardiac pacemaker codes (37.70-37.89). Care must be exercised in coding and reporting the cardiac pacemaker codes in order to receive the proper DRG assignment. As explained in the preceding coding guidelines, two codes are required to identify the initial insertion or total replacement of a permanent cardiac pacemaker system: one code to identify the type of device (single-chamber, rate responsive; single-chamber, not specified as rate responsive; or dual-chamber) and one code to identify the insertion of the lead(s) (transvenous atrial, transvenous ventricular...

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