Wiki acute on chronic renal failure-Physician documents

[ggparker14]

Physician documents acute on chronic renal failure. Would 518.84 be correct code or should this be coded as 584.9, 585.9?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Jacoder]

518.84 is for RESPIRATORY failure. You should code the acute renal failure first, with the chronic renal failure as the secondary dx according to coding guidelines.

 

[ggparker14]

Thanks for your help. I looked at this code wrong.