You Be the Coder:
Consider This ED Encounter With Admission
Published on Tue Sep 05, 2023
Question: A patient visited our emergency department (ED) with complaints of coughing up blood, difficulty breathing when lying down, and wheezing sounds while breathing. Pulmonary was consulted. The pulmonologist captured a history, performed a physical examination, and ordered a sputum culture, a CBC, a CMP, and a two-view chest X-ray. After reviewing the path/lab results and informally reviewing the X-ray images, [...]