Respiratory failure (insufficiency), chronic: Difference between revisions
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**Code the underlying cause for the respiratory failure (ex. GBS, C-spine injury, etc). | **Code the underlying cause for the respiratory failure (ex. GBS, C-spine injury, etc). | ||
**[[Muscle, wasting/atrophy NOS]] | **[[Muscle, wasting/atrophy NOS]] | ||
**[[Tracheostomy, has one]] | **[[Tracheostomy, has one]] {{Discuss| From the [[Tracheostomy, has one]] article is the following: "This code should '''only be used as a comorbid diagnosis''' -- because if putting in the trach was related to admission, or happened after admission, then you wouldn't code this diagnosis, but instead as a CCI procedure code, specifically Tracheostomy creation." For clarification, can collectors also code [[Tracheostomy, has one]] as an admit or even acquired dx? }} | ||
== Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | == Alternate ICD10s to consider coding instead or in addition == | ||