I am very new to Inpatient coding and need some help please!
We had a patient come to our hospital for a Right Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Two days later, during his inpatient stay, he had a fall in the hospital and landed on his knee, splitting open his surgical knee wound.
He was brought to the OR and had irrigation and debridement and wound closure done.
The second procedure would be 0JQN0ZZ.
I've seen articles about CMS's No Pay policy for Hospital Acquired Conditions, which includes falls.
Do we still code/report this procedure?
How about DRG since it's different from the original TKA procedure?
We had a patient come to our hospital for a Right Total Knee Arthroplasty.
Two days later, during his inpatient stay, he had a fall in the hospital and landed on his knee, splitting open his surgical knee wound.
He was brought to the OR and had irrigation and debridement and wound closure done.
The second procedure would be 0JQN0ZZ.
I've seen articles about CMS's No Pay policy for Hospital Acquired Conditions, which includes falls.
Do we still code/report this procedure?
How about DRG since it's different from the original TKA procedure?