debwest62
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Would you code cirrhosis and end stage liver disease as two separate codes? Or is cirrhosis included in end stage liver disease?
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Wiki End stage liver disease
Sandy Stevens
Networker
Cirrhosis is a final common endpoint in the stages of patients with chronic progressive liver disease (i.e., ESLD). If the underlying cause for the ESLD is cirrhosis, I would code only the specified cirrhosis. The code for ESLD is unspecified.