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ICD-10 code M62. 82 for Rhabdomyolysis is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Soft tissue disorders .
Housing and Economic ProblemsV60.0 (Z59.0)HomelessnessV60.1 (Z59.1)Inadequate HousingV60.89 (Z59.2)Discord With Neighbor, Lodger, or LandlordV60.6 (Z59.3)Problem Related to Living in a Residential InstitutionV60.2 (Z59.4)Lack of Adequate Food or Safe Drinking Water4 more rows
The Z codes (Z00-Z99) provide descriptions for when the symptoms a patient displays do not point to a specific disorder but still warrant treatment. The Z codes serve as a replacement for V codes in the ICD-10 and are 3-6 characters long.
F codes are further broken up into the following categories: F00–F09: codes for organic, including symptomatic, mental disorders. F10–F19: codes for mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance abuse. F20–F29: codes for schizophrenia, schizotypal, and delusional disorders.
ICD-10 code R68. 89 for Other general symptoms and signs is a medical classification as listed by WHO under the range - Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified .
R68. 89 is a billable/specific ICD-10-CM code that can be used to indicate a diagnosis for reimbursement purposes. The 2022 edition of ICD-10-CM R68. 89 became effective on October 1, 2021.
R45. 89 - Other symptoms and signs involving emotional state. ICD-10-CM.
Specific indications for CBC with differential count related to the WBC include signs, symptoms, test results, illness, or disease associated with leukemia, infections or inflammatory processes, suspected bone marrow failure or bone marrow infiltrate, suspected myeloproliferative, myelodysplastic or lymphoproliferative ...
Rhabdomyolysis may result from a large variety of diseases, trauma, or toxic insults to skeletal muscle. It may result in the potentially life-threatening complication of myoglobinuric acute renal failure. Associated problems can also occur including cardiac arrest, hyperkalemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation and compartment syndrome. Rhabdomyolysis results from muscle necrosis and release of creatine phosphokinase (CK) and myoglobin into the circulation.
Effective October 1, 2003, new codes have been created to separately identify rhabdomyolysis. Prior to this change, rhabdomyolysis was coded to 728.89, Other disorders of muscle, ligament and fascia, Other. Due to the severity of this condition, the Coding Clinic Editorial Advisory Board requested that a unique code be created for rhabdomyolysis. Rhabdomyolysis may result from a large variety of diseases, trauma, or toxic insults to skeletal muscle. It may result in the potentially life-threatening complication of myoglobinuric acute renal failure. Associated problems can also occur including cardiac arrest, hyperkalemia, disseminated intravascular coagulation and compartment syndrome. Rhabdomyolysis results...
Treatment consists of early and aggressive hydration to rapidly eliminate myoglobin out of the kidneys.
The poisoning codes have an associated intent as their 5th or 6th character (accidental, intentional self-harm, assault and undetermined. If the intent of the poisoning is unknown or unspecified, code the intent as accidental intent.
When coding a poisoning or reaction to the improper use of a medication (e.g., overdose, wrong substance given or taken in error, wrong route of administration), first assign the appropriate code from categories T36-T50. The poisoning codes have an associated intent as their 5th or 6th character (accidental, intentional self-harm, assault and undetermined. If the intent of the poisoning is unknown or unspecified, code the intent as accidental intent. The undetermined intent is only for use if the documentation in the record specifies that the intent cannot be determined. Use additional code (s) for all manifestations of poisonings.
The poisoning resulted in the patient being on the floor, which resulted in the Rhabdomyolysis, which lead to the AKI. In other words, downstream from the original poisoning (rather as a direct result of toxicity or if the toxicity was still present or not), is still a result of the poisoning and therefore likely still falls under ...
A: In this case, the Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting suggest that the poisoning from the heroin overdose should be sequenced as the principal diagnosis. The remaining sequela that came about after the overdose would be listed as secondary diagnoses. Make sure the AKI gets included in the final code set and doesn’t get skipped because it was omitted from the discharge summary.
The UHDDS definitions are the standards for interpreting the guidelines, but I do not believe they can directly contradict an instructional note in the ICD-10 system itself which includes those “code first” type of instructions.
If the doctor documented that the patient clearly would not have been admitted for the overdose and clearly was only being admitted for the Rhabdomyolysis/AKI, then you would have additional support for placing Rhabdomyolysis or AKI as the principal diagnosis. However, the way the physician listed the diagnoses in his or her discharge summary, I don’t think you are on solid grounds for making that suggestion.
The final diagnosis on the discharge summary was “heroin overdose, rhabdomyolysis.”