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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1990 Fourth Quarter
NOTICE
Note: These coding guidelines were superseded by new guidelines published in Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter, 1991.
The following instruction is provided to assist hospitals in complying with proposed changes to the Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) for bone marrow transplants as published in the Federal Register Volume 55, Number 90, May 9, 1990, page 19430. Refer to the regulations for further information regarding proposed DRG changes.
For Medicare reporting purposes, the following information is an exception to coding advice published in Coding Clinic, May-June 1985, pp. 18-19.
When a patient is admitted with leukemia in remission for an autologous bone...
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