tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2019 Issue 6
Reader Question: Find out How to Report Respiratory Distress
Question: Our ED physician documented a patient in “respiratory distress.” Which code should we report for this? Supercoder.com Subscriber Answer: Initial encounters with patients suffering from respiratory distress don’t always conclude with an authoritative diagnosis, which means you will often end up bypassing the J00-J99 (Diseases of the Respiratory System) codes in favor of choosing a sign or symptom from the R00-R09 (Symptoms and signs involving the circulatory and respiratory systems) code block. But be careful when you do, as some symptom and sign codes that look like respiratory conditions may not be so. For...
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