Love your Heart Month

As February is coming to an end I thought it would be fun to have a heart related post!

Coding for cardiovascular services can be pretty intense and you have many options

• Cardiology
  • doctor sees patient for cardiovascular related illness and disorders
  • no surgery
  • typically outpatient
• cardiovascular(cardio-thoracic) surgery
  • cardiac open heart surgeries(CABGs), open heart surgery for cardiomyopathy, open the chest surgery
• Interventional cardiology
  • doctor will complete heart catheterizations, will do open heart surgery(CABGs), works with valvular disorders
• Electrophysiology cardiology
  • deals with the electrical component of the heart only
    • pacemakers
    • Cardioverter defibrillator
    • cardiac ablations
    • heart monitors

Are you interested in the complex body system called Cardiovascular system? Maybe cardiovascular coding is for you!

• Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy
• Subsequent Myocardial Infarction NSTEMI
• Initial Myocardial Infarction, diaphragmatic STEMI
• Left ventricular failure
• Congestive heart failure
• enlarged heart
•  Atrial fibrillation(A-fib)
• Extrasystolic Arrhythmia
• Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis
• coronary artery disease
• venous malformation
• Congenital septal defect

can you code these cardiovascular diagnosis?

Check your answers below!

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• Idiopathic Cardiomyopathy- I42.9
  
• Subsequent Myocardial Infarction NSTEMI- I21.4
  
• Initial Myocardial Infarction, diaphragmatic STEMI- I21.19
  
• Left ventricular failure- I50.1
  
• Congestive heart failure- I50.9
  
• enlarged heart- I51.7 ( remember the medical term for enlarged is -megaly: cardiomegaly)
  
• Atrial fibrillation(A-fib)- I48.91
  
• Extrasystolic Arrhythmia- I49.49
  
• Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis- I25.10
  
• coronary artery disease-I25.10
• venous malformation- Q24.5
  
• Congenital septal defect- Q21.9
  

How did you do?

Comment below with your results and any questions you may have

Happy Learning

Danielle