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If the doctor puts croup on the diagnosis line of the ED chart and the history section of the chart notes that the patient has a history of asthma, should I code croup, or asthmatic croup?
I have also encountered the same situation with bronchitis and asthmatic bronchitis. If the diagnosis given is bronchitis and asthma is in the history, would you code asthmatic bronchitis?
Thank you.
I work for a billing company, so I would not query the physician on this.
 
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i believe it would code to asthma, if you look under croup there is a code for asthmatic croup which states see asthma. Hope that helps. More than likely, a patient with asthma may be more predisposed to getting croup??
 
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Croup is the diagnosis. Asthma is the history - Pt. may have asthma for years, but the pt. doesn't present with asthma today. If audited (I have done Medicare audits) I would expect to see Croup as the correct dx.
 
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