UHDDS Inpatient Coding Guidelines Exam Questions and Answers
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UHDDS Inpatient Coding Guidelines
Exam Questions and Answers
Codes for symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions - Answer️️ -Codes for
symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions from Chapter 18 are not to be used as
principal diagnosis when a related definitive diagnosis has been establi...
UHDDS Inpatient Coding Guidelines
Exam Questions and Answers
Codes for symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions - Answer✔️✔️-Codes for
symptoms, signs, and ill-defined conditions from Chapter 18 are not to be used as
principal diagnosis when a related definitive diagnosis has been established.
Two or more interrelated conditions, each potentially meeting the definition for principal
diagnosis - Answer✔️✔️-When there are two or more interrelated conditions (such as
diseases in the same ICD-10-CM chapter or manifestations characteristically associated
with a certain disease)potentially meeting the definition of principal diagnosis, either
condition may be sequenced first, unless the circumstances of the admission, the
therapy provided, the Tabular List, or the Alphabetic Index indicate otherwise.
Two or more diagnoses that equally meet the definition for
principal diagnosis - Answer✔️✔️-In the unusual instance when two or more diagnoses
equally meet the criteria for
principal diagnosis as determined by the circumstances of admission, diagnostic
workup and/or therapy provided, and the Alphabetic Index, Tabular List, or another
coding guidelines does not provide sequencing direction, any one of the diagnoses
may be sequenced first.
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