I am a student and i have a question, i am taking the CPC exam in March, im doing the review and on this review it has mock cases, the case reads as follows:
Patient presented to the emergency room with acute shortness of breath, fever, and hypoxia. The patient was treated with IV antibiotics, steroids, fluids and discharged home. Diagnosis: acute exacerbation of COPD, asthma, probable pneumonia,
the instructions for the review say assign appropriate icd9cm diagnosis/procedrues & cpt procedure dode with modifier if aplicable.
i got the following codes
er vist code 99284
principal dx 493.2
2ndy dx 496
dx 786.05
dx 780.60
dx 799.02
don't code the pneumonia its probable,
the only thing i can not figure out is the iv antibiotics, there is icd9 code for iv abx, but this is outpatient so i can't use that...what code do i use to cover it????
Patient presented to the emergency room with acute shortness of breath, fever, and hypoxia. The patient was treated with IV antibiotics, steroids, fluids and discharged home. Diagnosis: acute exacerbation of COPD, asthma, probable pneumonia,
the instructions for the review say assign appropriate icd9cm diagnosis/procedrues & cpt procedure dode with modifier if aplicable.
i got the following codes
er vist code 99284
principal dx 493.2
2ndy dx 496
dx 786.05
dx 780.60
dx 799.02
don't code the pneumonia its probable,
the only thing i can not figure out is the iv antibiotics, there is icd9 code for iv abx, but this is outpatient so i can't use that...what code do i use to cover it????