Refer to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines I.C.14.a.2, which…
Refer to the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines I.C.14.a.2, which states: Patients who have undergone kidney transplant may still have some form of chronic kidney disease (CKD) because the kidney transplant may not fully restore kidney function. Therefore, the presence of CKD alone does not constitute a transplant complication. According the Official Guideline above, the appropriate code for a patient’s stage of CKD is _________, and the appropriate code for the kidney transplant status is _________.
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