Please note this question was answered in 2014. The coding advice may or may not be outdated.
ICD-9 for Congenital Issues
Date: Dec 1, 2014
Question:
If a patient has a congential heart defect such as a PFO and they are coded as congenital 745.05 and we perform a congenital Echo 93303. Then the patient comes back a year later and the PFO has closed and the Echo is now showing normal would you still code them as congenital?
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