AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1990 Fourth Quarter

Complication of Bone Marrow Transplant

Note:As of October 1, 2008 subcategory 279.5X is assigned for graft versus host disease. Effective October 1, 1990, code 996.8, Complications of transplanted organ will be expanded to include a new code 996.85, Bone marrow. This includes the term graft versus host disease (acute) (chronic). A human organ is defined as having a differentiated structure and performing specialized functions in the body. Bone marrow is an organ that contains and develops the precursor components of blood cell stem lines. These eventually mature into different blood cell types. Among these types are the cell lines of the...

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