AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2024 Issue 4; New/Revised ICD-10-CM Codes

Cement and Fat Pulmonary Artery Embolisms with and without Acute Cor Pulmonale

Two new codes have been created at subcategory I26.0, Pulmonary embolism with acute cor pulmonale, to capture cement embolism of pulmonary artery with acute cor pulmonale (I26.03), and fat embolism of pulmonary artery with acute cor pulmonale (I26.04).Two new codes were created at subcategory, I26.9, Pulmonary embolism without acute core pulmonale, to capture cement embolism of pulmonary artery without acute cor pulmonale (I26.95), and fat embolism of pulmonary artery without acute cor pulmonale (I26.96). Pulmonary cement embolism (PCE) is an iatrogenic condition where bone cement made from polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), that...

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