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**e.g. where you should code it: Admitted for hypertensive emergency and was not taking prescribed anti-hypertensive medications | **e.g. where you should code it: Admitted for hypertensive emergency and was not taking prescribed anti-hypertensive medications | ||
**e.g. where you should '''NOT''' code it: Admitted for pneumonia, with hypertension as a '''[[Comorbid Diagnosis]]''' was not taking prescribed anti-hypertensive medications | **e.g. where you should '''NOT''' code it: Admitted for pneumonia, with hypertension as a '''[[Comorbid Diagnosis]]''' was not taking prescribed anti-hypertensive medications | ||
{{Discuss| For further coding clarification, can this code be used as an admit diagnosis and/or a comorb diagnosis? Is this code a candidate for Combined ICD10 codes? Thanks! }} | |||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||