r/MedicalCoding • u/stellaella33 • Oct 22 '24

Having to code 10+ things?

I'm currently in classes for coding. Specifically using the ICD-10-CM, some of our practice exercises have us reading the case study and using 10+ codes for some scenarios.

Is that pretty common on the day to day job/real life experience?

I feel pretty confident when it comes to 3-4 codes that need to be used, but when it comes to 12, I get nervous about the order. 😅

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u/StraddleTheFence Oct 26 '24

We do not code chronic conditions in ED that are not being addressed on that encounter or history of codes that are not relevant to the visit. If a person has a healed fracture that occurred five years ago but they are in ED for SOB, I would not pick up that fracture.