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Sep 10th, 2009 - cinnnamon 13
Patient seen at ED Dept for right upper quadrant abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhea a diagnosis of probable gastroenteritis is made
A Newbie Coder friend asked me this question and wanted a 2nd opinion
I told her in Outpatient Codng guidelines she need to code the symtoms due to there's not a actual dx and a dx of probable gastroenteritis is not allowed as a proper dx code as she need to code the highest levle of of specificity. So I told her to code the only symptoms of :
789.01,787.03, 787.91 . As the Probable Gastroenteritis is not coded under ioutpatient guidelines as it would be allowed under Inpatient coding Guidelines.
Thanks for all and any of your inputs.