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Patient is 13 weeks pregnant admitted for missed abortion and underwent D&C, she also has ovarian cyst, asthma etc.would I code the other conditions to pregnancy related first trimester? Any official reference or coding clinic for this please suggest me ?



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Anugu Srinivas
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Chronic conditions reporting in abortion cases

Hi,

Once pregnancy has ended, the patient's chronic condition are coded without pregnancy codes. Read ICD-10 Guidelines Ch15.q Termination of pregnancy and Spontaneous Abortions....
 
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