jliving77
Networker
Good afternoon! My provider is ordering a hepatitis test for a patient with a PMX of a blood transfusion and she wants to know if that dx would be covered. What I am trying to find out, covered or not, what is the correct way to code for this? The only code I find is Z51.89 encounter for other specified aftercare but do I have to code the underlying condition which caused the transfusion to have to be done? I ask because the pt had it done in 1983 in Germany. The previous illness is not specified.
Thank you!
Jennifer Livingston CPC
Thank you!
Jennifer Livingston CPC