AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2007 Issue 2; Ask the Editor

Hepatic Encephalopathy Due to Viral Hepatitis

When assigning the code for viral hepatitis with encephalopathy, is code 572.2, Hepatic coma, assigned as an additional code, or is this information captured in category 070, Viral hepatitis at the fourth digit level, which describes “with hepatic coma”? What is the correct code assignment for hepatic encephalopathy due to a specific type of viral hepatitis? ...

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