For the life of me, I cannot figure out an easy shortcut for the word hypotension. I have tried a few things but they conflict with my other shortcuts i.e. hypothyroidism. Brain dead today. Can you suggest something? TIA ...
Sepsis. Diagnosis is sepsis due to pneumonia. The diagnoses are presented in this way:
Sepsis due to pneumonia
UTI due to E. Coli
Now, if you code the sepsis, it will be sepsis unspecified because you do not have an organism documented for the pneumonia or the sepsis (they don't know)038.9, 99591 and 486.
If you go to code the UTI with E. Coli, there is an edit that excludes 041.4 with 038.9. Do you put it in, or do you just leave the organism for the UTI ...