AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1989 Third Quarter

Clarifications

Inoperative Cholangiogram In the Fourth Quarter 1988 issue of Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM, page 7, last paragraph, the code for intraoperative cholangiogram should read 87.53 rather than 87.54. Cholecystectomy Several questions have been raised since the publication of the Fourth Quarter 1988 issue of Coding Clinic where coding the insertion of a choledochocystotomy tube was addressed. The following information is provided in an effort to clarify the issue. A patient undergoing a cholecystectomy, 51.2x, because of acute cholecystitis will probably have an impacted stone resulting in inflammation, infection, and swelling of the gallbladder. Part of the...

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