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CHD and Heart Transplant

Date: Mar 18, 2015

Question:

I received your February 2015 Q&A answer regarding coding a patient non-congenital once they've had a heart transplant. I have your Diagnostic & Interventional Cardiovascular Coding Reference, and it states that once a patient is diagnosed as having congenital heart disease he/she should always be coded as such, even if the patient receives a heart transplant. My book version is a couple of years old, so I was not sure if your new version has the opposite of what this version has.

Question ID : 6541
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