AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1998 Third Quarter

ORGAN TRANSPLANT COMPLICATIONS

Note: As of October 1, 2000, a unique code has been created for complications of transplanted intestine (996.87). Note: For additional information regarding post-transplant complications, refer to Coding Clinic, Third Quarter, 2001, page 13 and Coding Clinic, First Quarter 2003, pg. 11. When post-organ transplant patients present for further medical care, the coder must determine from the documentation whether the patient has any complications of the transplanted organ. It is necessary to make this determination before a code from subcategory 996.8 or a post-transplant status code from category V42, Organ or tissue replaced by transplant, is assigned...

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