AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1996 Fourth Quarter

Coronary Atherosclerosis of Bypass Graft

New fifth-digits for code 414.0, Coronary atherosclerosis, were created in 1994 (see Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 1994, page 49, and Coding Clinic, Second Quarter 1995, page 17) to allow for a distinction between a disease process which occurs to a native coronary artery and to a bypass graft. It was unforeseen that additional scenarios would present themselves, which the existing fifth-digits would not be able to accommodate. 414.0 Coronary atherosclerosis Revised code 414.00 Of unspecified type of vessel, native or graft New code 414.04 Of artery bypass graft Internal mammary artery New code 414.05...

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