AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2020 Issue 4; Section X-New Technology

Measurement of Infection

Two new codes have been created at table XXE, New Technology, Physiological Systems, Measurement, with the Device/Substance/Technology values noted below. Device/Substance/Technology N Infection, Positive Blood Culture Fluorescence Hybridization for Organism Identification, Concentration and Susceptibility Q Infection, Lower Respiratory Fluid Nucleic Acid-base Microbial Detection Positive Blood Culture Fluorescence Hybridization Code XXE5XN6, Measurement of infection, positive blood culture fluorescence hybridization for organism identification, concentration and susceptibility, new technology group 6, was created to describe the processing and analysis of a positive blood culture using the Accelerate PhenoTest™ BC kit. The test is a fast, automated, phenotypic, direct-from-positive blood culture identification and...

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