Outpatient Facility Coding Alert
You Be the Coder:
Choose a Diagnosis for Postoperative Swelling
Published on Wed Jan 23, 2013 
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Question: I cannot locate "post-operative swelling" under the status choices for postoperative diagnoses? Can you please help me locate the correct?
Answer: Pain and swelling are both component signs of inflammation and infection. Because of that, ICD-9-CM code 998.89 (Postoperative infection; other specified complications of procedures) probably is the most accurate code to report.
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