AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2005 Issue 1; Ask the Editor

Perinatal Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

What would be the appropriate code assignment for an infant admitted age 28 days or less with congestive heart failure (CHF)? Normally, we would assign code 779.89, Other specified conditions originating in the perinatal period; however, based on the First Quarter 1999, Coding Clinic, page 11, code 428.0, Congestive Heart Failure, was assigned alone without the addition of code 779.89. ...

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