1.

A patient with diabetes and hypertension, now admitting for foot

gangrene. Now undergoing below knee amputation. What will be the PDX?
Will you give a combination code for gangrene and diabetes as PDX?

2. How many codes will you assign for metastatic lung cancer?

3. What all are the things which have impact on DRG?

4. 4. How do you code the patient who is diagnosed as overdosing on crack

and found to be in respiratory failure, then placed on ventilation? PDX.

5. A patient admitted with fever, tachycardia, leukocytosis and abdominal

pain. Found to have UTI and SIRS due to UTI. Patient started on antibiotics.
What should be the PDX?

6. When a patient is admitted for dehydration due to a bout of

gastroenteritis, which would be the Pdx?

7. What is PDX?

8. Can a condition with POA N be PDX?

9. Other than principal procedure can a secondary procedure also have

impact on DRG?

10. A patient is admitted with angina that after study is found to have an AMI
(Acute myocardial infarction). In this case, What would be the Pdx ?.

11. What code will you assign for a patient with cellulitis in his below knee
amputation stump site. Do you need to raise any query here?

12. What is the UHDDS guideline for uncertain diagnosis coding?

13. A patient with history of HIV now admitting with sob and chest pain, after
workup found to have pneumonia. In the discharge summary final
diagnosis was given Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Pdx will be?

14. Patient discharge diagnosis is abdominal pain secondary to UTI and

diverticulitis. PDX is ?

15. Patient discharge diagnosis is abdominal pain secondary to UTI versus

diverticulitis. PDX?

16. What if the discharge diagnosis is UTI versus diverticulitis?

17. What is physician query?

18. Do you code facial droop and Headache for a patient admitting for acute
CVA?

19. What is the difference between TIA and CVA.

20. Patient is admitting for abdominal pain. Found to have UTI by the
attending physician. Urology consultant documented pyelonephritis.
Discharge summary documented UTI and pyelonephritis. What should be
the PDX?