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Coding for unspecified acute on chronic anemia

Date: Nov 6, 2020

Question:

We have physicians who indicate a patient has acute on chronic anemia (without a specification of anemia due to chronic disease/CKD/etc.). There's some debate on how to actually code it, though the consensus seems to be D64.89 for the other specified anemia. Can you verify D64.89 as a valid option, or would some other code be more appropriate?

Question ID : 14700
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