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Top 100 Cardiology ICD-10 Code by Clinical Concept

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Accurate coding is the backbone of effective healthcare management. Understanding the clinical concepts behind ICD-10 codes is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it enables proper diagnosis and treatment planning, ensuring that patients receive the appropriate care. Secondly, accurate coding is essential for billing and reimbursement, ensuring healthcare providers are compensated fairly for their services. Lastly, it allows for accurate data analysis and research, facilitating advancements in cardiology care.

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ICD-10 Codes for Excessive, Frequent and Irregular Menstruation or Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

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Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is a broad term that describes irregularities in the menstrual cycle involving frequency, regularity, duration, and volume of flow outside of pregnancy.

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ICD-10 Codes for Acute Myocardial Infarction Complications

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Rupture of the left ventricular free wall, rupture of the interventricular septum, and acute mitral regurgitation due to papillary muscle necrosis are three potentially lethal mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction (MI).

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ICD-10 Codes for Palpitation | Cardiac Arrhythmias | Abnormalities of Heart Rhythm | Rapid heart beat

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Palpitations are defined as rapid pulsations or abnormally rapid or irregular beating of the heart. They are often described as the perception of a skipped beat, rapid fluttering in the chest, pounding sensation in the chest or neck, or a flip-flopping in the chest.

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ICD-10 Codes for Radiculopathy | Myelopathy | Cervical Spine Disorders

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Cervical disease or neck pain has a prevalence of 10 to 20 percent in the adult population, which is similar to that of low back pain. However, unlike low back pain, lost time from work related to neck pain is infrequent.

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ICD-10 Codes for Chest Pain

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Chest pain is a common complaint and encompasses a broad differential diagnosis that includes several life-threatening causes. A workup must focus on ruling out serious pathology before a clinician considers more benign causes.

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ICD-10 Codes for Diabetes Mellitus

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The term diabetes mellitus describes diseases of abnormal carbohydrate metabolism that are characterized by hyperglycemia. It is associated with a relative or absolute impairment in insulin secretion, along with varying degrees of peripheral resistance to the action of insulin.

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ICD-10 Codes for ear pain | Earache

ICD-10, Coding Knowledge Base, Medical Billing, Practice Management / By DocCharge / 5 minutes of reading

Ear pain (or otalgia) ranks as one of the leading complaints among children and adult evaluated in the primary care or emergency setting. Most patients will have one of three common diagnoses (acute otitis media [AOM], otitis externa, or otitis media with effusion [OME]), which are generally not serious.

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ICD-10 Codes for Bypass graft and transplant heart related angina

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Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a major surgical operation where atheromatous blockages in a patient’s coronary arteries are bypassed with harvested venous or arterial conduits. The bypass restores blood flow to the ischemic myocardium which, in turn, restores function, viability, and relieves anginal symptoms

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ICD-10 Codes for Allergic rhinitis (AR) or allergic inflammation of the nasal airways

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Allergic rhinitis (AR) or allergic inflammation of the nasal airways is an atopic disease presenting with symptoms of sneezing, nasal congestion, clear rhinorrhea, and nasal pruritis. It is an IgE-mediated immune response that is against inhaled antigens in the immediate phase, with a subsequent leukotriene-mediated late phase.

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