Surgery for Post OP GI Bleeding

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Category/Organ System:	Category: GI-OR (old)
Type:	Category: Surgical Procedure (old)
Main Diagnosis:	Other Procedures
Sub Diagnosis:	Post Op Bleeding GI
Diagnosis Code:	79415 - Surgery for Post OP Bleeding GI
Comorbid Diagnosis:	No
Charlson Comorbid coding (pre ICD10):	0
Program:	CC & Med
Status:	Currently Collected

Use this DX code if an actual surgical procedure was done to fix a post op GI bleed.

To code that a post surgery GI bleed occurred that did not have surgery, see: Post OP Bleeding - GI.

Example, if patient is admitted to the ICU from the OR and there is no specific surgical code between 783 to 797 to use to code surgery was done to fix a GI bleed, this is the code used. This code is a surgical intervention/procedure.