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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1998 Fourth Quarter; VOLUMES 1 & 2 NEW/REVISED CODES
Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia
Effective October 1, 1998, a new code has been created for the specific identification of Staphylococcus Aureus pneumonia. A parallel modification was created last year for the reporting of staph aureus septicemia.
482 Other bacterial pneumonia
New subcategory 482.4 Pneumonia due to Staphylococcus
New code 482.40 Pneumonia due to Staphylococcus, unspecified
New code 482.41 Pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus
New code 482.49 Other Staphylococcus pneumonia
This supersedes advice previously published in Coding Clinic, Third Quarter 1991, pages 16-17.
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