Question

The patient is experiencing diabetic nephropathy with hypertensive chronic renal disease and chronic renal failure. How many codes would be assigned for this patient?

Answer 1

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