HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2015 Issue 19 (October)
Q&A: Linking diabetes and gastroparesis
October 22nd, 2015
Q: Should “diabetes with gastroparesis” be coded as 536.3, diabetes with a complication code? I understood that the term ‘with’ can link two diagnoses, but that it does not represent a cause-and-effect relationship. Can you please clarify this, and why a cause-and-effect relationship can be assumed in the term “diabetes with gastroparesis”?
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