Question

A 26-year-old male is admitted to the hospital after an assault at a local bar. The patient was stabbed once in the abdomen with a large knife and had an abdominal laceration in the epigastric area that also created an internal injury, with a moderate laceration of the head of his pancreas. What is the coding and sequencing for the diagnoses in this case? Do not assign Chapter 20, "External Causes of Morbidity" (V00-Y99), codes to identify external cause.

Answer 1

The coding and sequencing for the diagnoses in this case would be an abdominal laceration in the epigastric area (S31.814A) and an internal injury with a moderate laceration of the head of the pancreas (S36.822A).

Step-by-step explanation:

The coding and sequencing for the diagnoses in this case would be as follows:

• The primary diagnosis would be the abdominal laceration in the epigastric area, which would be coded as S31.814A.
• The secondary diagnosis would be the internal injury with a moderate laceration of the head of the pancreas, which would be coded as S36.822A.

These codes represent the specific injuries and their severity, and would be used for billing and record-keeping purposes.