• If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ & read the forum rules. To view all forums, post or create a new thread, you must be an AAPC Member. If you are a member and have already registered for member area and forum access, you can log in by clicking here. If you've forgotten the password it can be reset on our sign in section by entering your registered Email Address or Username here. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below..

Wiki Urgent: Post-op Ileus Question

Create Wiki
J

jsd123

Guest
Messages
42
Best answers
0
Hi All

Quick (and I think easy) question: The case I am coding (obviously inpt as pt had a hemicolectomy) followed by a post-op ileus (definitive diagnosis); I'm all set with each of those!

However I am at one of those "brain freezes"!!! :-)

Do you code the "post-op vomiting after GI surgery" (ICD-9 564.3)? I know its just a symptom, and we have the definitive of an ileus, or do we leave it alone?

Thanks!

Janice
 
I code IP too. I would not code that vomiting as this is most likely caused by the ileus. I often question things like this too. You never know when you are going to have a "brain freeze"! :o
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top