HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2019 Issue 4 (January)

Q&A: Coding and querying for metabolic encephalopathy

January 22nd, 2019

Q: I would like to add encephalopathy due to urinary tract infection to our quick coding tips, but our CDI specialists disagree on how this condition should be coded and want us to query for metabolic encephalopathy. How should this condition ultimately be reported?

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