BC Advantage - 2020 Issue 4

ICD-10 Codes to Document Lobar Pneumonia this COVID-19 Season

Pneumonia refers to an infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs whereas Lobar pneumonia refers to a form of pneumonia that affects a specific lobe or lobes of the lung. Pneumonia is grouped by its different causes such as bacterial pneumonia, viral pneumonia, mycoplasma pneumonia and so on. Lobar pneumonia is a bacterial pneumonia and is most commonly community acquired. The world is hit by covid-19 or the coronavirus that had started in late 2019 and early 2020 in the Chinese city of Wuhan as a cluster of pneumonia cases with an unknown cause. Just...

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