Aug 7, 2017 · (ICD-10 code B20). CHSC Code Section 121022 (a) requires health care providers and clinical laboratories to report HIV infection by patient name to the local public health officer.

Dec 18, 2019 · How do your facilities handle "HIV" documentation? What about the coding clinic that says if once coded as B20 the patients condition should always be coded to B20? Are you …

Apr 26, 2019 · So, when the documentation indicates HIV with sepsis, since with is considered a linking term (CC 4th qtr 2017 pg 101), and sepsis is in the CMS list of related conditions, are you coding to …

Aug 30, 2016 · I think the AIDS would be the PDx. If you sequence sepsis first, it remains in the AIDS DRG. Also, seems correct as PDx given that the sepsis is likely due to the AIDS related illness (and …

Dec 18, 2019 · How do your facilities handle "HIV" documentation? What about the coding clinic that says if once coded as B20 the patients condition should always be coded to B20? Are you …

Mar 8, 2017 · That's correct, sepsis will be your principal diagnosis. The only time you will not use sepsis as primary diagnosis is when there is a complication code on admission.

May 4, 2017 · I have a case where the patient is admitted with Sepsis due to e coil UTI, had a NSTEMI and GI bleeding found to be caused by Acute Duodenal Ulcer with ABLA.

Apr 27, 2018 · In addition, it looks like B20 Human Immunodeficiency virus [HIV] is proposed to change from a MCC to a CC. And, it looks like G93.40 Encephalopathy, unspecified will remain a MCC.

May 23, 2018 · Two or more diagnoses that equally meet the definition for principal diagnosis “In the unusual instance when two or more diagnoses equally meet the criteria for principal diagnosis as …

Dec 5, 2017 · We are a small hospital and do not have a lot admissions for HIV. Would you query for pancytopenia or is this integral to HIV?