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The disease i chose is diabetes mellitus. The three major types of diabetes are type1, type2 and secondary. If the medical record does not specify which type of diabetes the patient has, the rule of thumb is to code it as type 2 diabetes. diabetes mellitus is coded with codes E08 thru E13 depending on classification. A diabetic patient who uses insulin or other drugs related to the diabetic condition gets an additional Z code. A diabetic patient went to the hospital for abdominal pain and was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis. The patient is taking insulin for diabetes. The codes for this diagnosis is : K85.90, E11.69, and Z79.4. First the diagnosis will be coded, to search for the code pancreatitis is searched on the alphabetical index. Since nothing else is specified, acute pancreatitis without necrosis or infection, unspecified best fits the description. The diabetes is coded as type 2 diabetes because the type of diabetes is unspecified. The code is listed under diabetes. For the use of Insulin, long-term is search in the alphabetical index to get the code I want some kind of comments to my clasmate post
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