Sepsis – every coder’s best friend! Many of us have faced the challenge of reconciling the variations that exist in defining sepsis between ICD-9, ICD-10, providers as a group, and even amongst providers at a single hospital. Change is in the air.
The most traditional concept of sepsis is a bacterial infection of the blood (septicemia) and the havoc this wreaks on the body. Indeed ICD-9 and ICD-10 both fit best to this idea as the codes for sepsis are found squarely among the bacterial infectious disease codes. Of course ICD-10 arguably clarified the situation somewhat...
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