Systemic htn secondary to renal disease

[renifejn]

I always confuse coding 'secondaries'

code for "systemic htn secondary to renal disease"?


thanks

 

[niveditha]

HTN secondary to renal disease

Hi

The ICD code for HTN seconary to renal disease should be 405.99,593.9.

Niveditha Antoniraj,CPC-A

 

[renifejn]

anyone else have an opinion on this? i've asked a couple of co-workers and we disagree.

thanks

 

[FTessaBartels]

ICD9 guidelines

To quote from 2009 ICD-9 Coding Guidelines, Chapter 7; a. Hypertension;
7) Hypertension, secondary: Two codes are required: one to identify the underlying etiology and one from category 405 to identify the hypertension. Sequencing of codes is determined by the reason for admission/encounter.

F Tessa Bartels, CPC CPC-E/M