An A–Z of responses to NZ coding queries.
A
- Above knee amputation (AKA)
- ACS 0002 Additional diagnoses
- ACS 1521 Conditions complicating pregnancy
- Acute kidney failure with impairment of glucose tolerance
- Affecting management of pregnancy
- Agitation with dementia
- Alcohol coding
- Alcohol intoxication with overdose of drug
- Allergy (food) challenge – negative reaction
- Allergy (food) challenge – positive reaction
- Amniotic membrane graft
- Anaemia with multiple myeloma
- Anti-D
- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome
B
- Berinert administration
- Blood alcohol level
- Bovine patch graft of artery
- Breast mastectomy with reconstruction using tissue expander and acellular dermal matrix (ADM)
C
- Cancelled procedures
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) related injuries
- Cataracts
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease with diabetes
- Chest pain
- Chest pain - atypical
- Chronic tonsillitis with hypertrophy
- Chronotropic incompetence
- COF value for O80-O84 Delivery codes when additional diagnoses
- Conditions complicating pregnancy
- Corneal collagen cross-linking
- Corneal ulceration
- Cytomegaloviral (CMV) infections
D
- Debridement on ward or in emergency department
- Decompression of pseudo-obstruction
- Diabetes mellitus documentation
- Dental - discing/disking
- Diabetic nephropathy without mention of chronic kidney disease (CKD)
- Division of lung adhesions
- Ductal carcinoma of the breast
E
- Ebola virus
- Elective caesarean section with scar excision
- Emphysematous cystitis
- Excision of right parapharyngeal tumour via lip split/mandibulotomy
- Excision of synostosis
- External cause – activity – trampoline
- External cause – beach accident
- External cause – complication of surgery Y83.-
- External cause – place of occurrence
- External cause – place of occurrence – beach
- External cause – place of occurrence – racecourse versus road
- External cause – place of occurrence – refuse transfer station, recycling centre, tip or dump
- External cause – taser administered by police
- External cause – thrown from biscuit being towed by boat
- External cause code - transport accident involving an ambulance
- Extracapsular cataract extraction and pars plana vitrectomy
F
- Femoral nerve block for pain relief
- Fetal alcohol syndrome
- Fragmentation of kidney calculus with ureteroscopy
- Frontal recess dissection
G
H
- Healthy infant (Z762)
- Heart valve disease - combination codes
- History of breast neoplasm on Tamoxifen
- Hyperemesis gravidarum with ketones in urine
- Hypothermia treatment
- Hysteroscopy and colposcopy
I
- Iatrogenic pneumothorax due to acupuncture needle
- Infrarenal AAA with bifurcation graft to left iliac and right femoral arteries
- Insertion of K-wire into joint
- Insertion of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG)
- Intranasal midazolam/fentanyl sedation
- Iron deficiency anaemia in pregnancy
- Isolation
- IV dextrose for neonates
K
L
M
- Malpresentation, disproportion and abnormality of maternal pelvic organs
- McRoberts manoeuvre
- Meibomian gland dysfunction
- Methadone
- Microsurgical anastomosis of artery and vein
- Minimally Invasive Retroperitoneal Pancreatic Necrosectomy (MIRPS)
- Multiple superficial injuries
- MyoSure tissue removal system
N
O
- Old myocardial infarction
- ORIF distal tibia fracture not involving ankle joint
- Osteoarthritis unilateral or bilateral
- Otitis externa
P
- Parenchymal remodelling of breast tissue
- Parkinson’s disease with implantation of porcine choroid plexus cells
- Patent processus vaginalis
- Perispinal tumour
- Post-term infants
- PPH secondary to perineal tear - Query revised see Haemorrhage secondary to perineal tear repair
- Pre-hydration prior to CT scan with contrast
- Pressure ulcer of below knee amputation (BKA)
- Procedural complications
R
-
Re-bubbling of descement stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) graft
- Relationship problems
- Removal of internal fixation (metalware)
- Removal of maxilla osteodistractors
- Removal of NUSS bar
- Repair of cleft palate with flap and intravelar veloplasty
- Respiratory dependence
- Retrograde Pyelogram (RPG)
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis
- Review of mechanical ventilation
- Revision procedures – THJR
S
- Senile cataracts
- Shockwave lithotripsy of coronary artery by balloon catheter
- Sialoendoscopy
- Sleep apnoea and obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- Spinal cord stimulator
- Sub-tenon block
- Submucosal minimally invasive lingual excision
- Subtalar Arthroereisis
- Superficial siderosis of cerebral hemisphere
- Synthetic drugs
T
- Tertiary hyperparathyroidism due to renal disease
- Thrombocytopenia in pregnancy
- Transfusion of buffy coat
- Twin delivery
V