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Wiki NECROTIZING PNEUMONIA WITH LUNG ABSCESS

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I am struggling on how to code this situation correctly. The patient has been diagnosed with necrotizing pneumonia with a large abscess. The ICD 10 cm dx code for necrotizing pneumonia codes to J85.0 gangrene and necrosis of lung which then isn't under a pneumonia dx. So for the diagnosis of the lung abscess you can code it as J85.2 abscess of lung without pneumonia or J85.1 abscess of lung with pneumonia.

So I wasn't sure which one to use J85.2 or J85.1?

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