Q&A: Documentation needed for CHF not due to hypertension

Article Overview

This article is a brief coding Q&A for clinicians, coders, and CDI professionals working with cardiovascular documentation. It explains the general documentation issue of distinguishing heart failure associated with hypertension from heart failure attributed to another cause, and highlights the need to review provider wording and query when documentation is incomplete. The piece also notes the broader ICD-10-CM/PCS educational context in which the question was answered.