Answer to Question #52707 in Biology for melsis

Question #52707
The patient is experiencing diabetic nephropathy with hypertensive chronic renal disease and chronic renal failure. How many codes would be assigned for this patient?
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2015-05-21T10:35:29-0400

Two codes will be assigned for this patient.

First code for diabetic nephropathy: one of E10-E14 (Type x diabetes mellitus with renal complications), depending on the type (x).

Second code for hypertensive chronic renal disease and chronic renal failure: I12.0 (Hypertensive renal disease with renal failure).

You can easily find codes here: ICD-10

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