AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2018 Issue 4; Ask the Editor

Nutritional Anemia and Anemia Unspecified

Both code D53.9, Nutritional anemia, unspecified, and code D64.9, Anemia, unspecified, are nonspecific codes. Code D53.9 has an Excludes1 note in the Tabular List for “anemia NOS (D64.9).”  How should the Excludes1 notes be interpreted, and when both conditions are documented in the medical record, which condition should be coded? ...

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