Cindy Page
New Member
When patients are seeing our providers for a follow up visit after they are discharged from the hospital
1. Their condition/diagnosis is resolved, what is the appropriate ICD code selection? For example: we have several patients who are discharged with pneumonia and when they see us, the providers are indicating that the pneumonia is resolved. Is it still OK to code the pneumonia code for that visit, or is there a better option?
2. CVA. When patients are discharged from the hospital and see us within 7 days, and they have late effects - should we be coding our visit with the appropriate sequela codes? The provider really is addressing the CVA condition overall, so would coding the appropriate CVA code, and not sequela be OK? Then as patient returns to the office for further visits, those become sequela.
1. Their condition/diagnosis is resolved, what is the appropriate ICD code selection? For example: we have several patients who are discharged with pneumonia and when they see us, the providers are indicating that the pneumonia is resolved. Is it still OK to code the pneumonia code for that visit, or is there a better option?
2. CVA. When patients are discharged from the hospital and see us within 7 days, and they have late effects - should we be coding our visit with the appropriate sequela codes? The provider really is addressing the CVA condition overall, so would coding the appropriate CVA code, and not sequela be OK? Then as patient returns to the office for further visits, those become sequela.