UHDDS Inpatient Coding Guidelines
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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
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, 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.
Two or more comparative or contrasting conditions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In those rare
instances when two or more contrasting or comparative diagnoses are documented
as "either/or" (or similar terminology), they are coded as if the diagnoses
were confirmed and the diagnoses are sequenced according to the circumstances of
the admission. If no further determination can be made as to which diagnosis
should be principal, either diagnosis may be sequenced first.
Original treatment plan not carried out - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sequence as the principal
diagnosis the condition, which after study occasioned the admission to the hospital,
even though treatment may not have been carried out due to
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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
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, 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.
Two or more comparative or contrasting conditions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔In those rare
instances when two or more contrasting or comparative diagnoses are documented
as "either/or" (or similar terminology), they are coded as if the diagnoses
were confirmed and the diagnoses are sequenced according to the circumstances of
the admission. If no further determination can be made as to which diagnosis
should be principal, either diagnosis may be sequenced first.
Original treatment plan not carried out - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Sequence as the principal
diagnosis the condition, which after study occasioned the admission to the hospital,
even though treatment may not have been carried out due to
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