tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2018 Issue 3

HIV Coding Quiz: Gauge Your Answers Against the Experts'

Report AIDS in narrow circumstances. Making errors when reporting human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) could have dire consequences- both for the patient's welfare and your reimbursement. So check out these answers to the three quiz questions and make sure you know how to handle these cases. Answer 1:The answer to this question depends on the stage of the infection the patient is in. After a positive HIV lab test, an appropriate diagnosis for a patient with no symptoms is Z21 (Asymptomatic human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] infection status). Coding Z21 means that the patient is HIV positive, but...

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