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Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis

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Is anyone having problems with denials when using I26.90 or I26.99 as primary diagnosis on provider claims? If so, can you explain to me why this is an issue? I don't see that the codes have been deleted or changed, and we didn't have problems with these codes until just recently.
 
Pulmonary Embolism coding

Hi

Do you know that dx. I26.9 needs an additional dx code of I33.0 or J85...why doc think patient get embolism? This may help

I hope this information helps you.

Lady T
 
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