Among primary ICD codes for SCM, 98% had active disease, while 87% of secondary codes had active manifestations of SCM. Primary SCM had higher rates of cardiac catheterization (88% versus 53%; p<0.001) and echocardiogram (95.9% vs 88.6%; p<0.002) as compared with secondary diagnosis. ...
(ICD-9: 424.9, 424.91, 424.99, 421.0, 421.1, 421.9, 112.81, 036.42 and ICD-10: I38, I39, I33, I33.9, B37.6 and A39.51) with or without procedure codes for echocardiogram (93303-93356) and (2) a key word, pattern-based text query of discharge summaries (DS) that selected on ...
The ICD-10-CM code Q21.1 perpetuates this issue. The objective of this study was to assess whether code 745.5 in isolation or in combination with unspecified CHD codes 746.9 or 746.89 miscodes for CHD, and if true CHD positives decrease with age. Design Echocardiograms of patients with an ...