HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2019 Issue 46 (November)

Q&A: Differentiating between bacteremia, sepsis in ICD-10-CM

November 26th, 2019

Q: Physicians at our hospital use the terms bacteremia and sepsis interchangeably despite each having distinct ICD-10-CM codes. How should we address this issue, and what should we do when we need to query?

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