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Coding Asphyxia

Published on Mon Jan 01, 2001

Question: What code do I use for hypoxemia, subnormal oxygenation of arterial blood (PO2 less than 60) or saturated O2 less than 90 percent?

Washington Subscriber

Answer: The code for asphyxia (lack of oxygen) is 799.0. It excludes asphyxia due to carbon monoxide (986), inhalation of food or foreign body (932-934.9), newborn (768.0-768.9) or trauma (994.7).

Answered by Susan Callaway, CPC, CCS-P, an independent coding consultant and educator in North Augusta, S.C.
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