Problem: The patient was admitted to the hospital with a multitude of gastrointestinal symptoms including abdominal pain and nausea and vomiting. After diagnostic tests were performed, the physician's final diagnosis was acute on chronic pancreatitis.
First, you need to determine what type of visit this is, inpatient or outpatient, to know which coding guidelines you should be following.
Validate the accuracy or inaccuracy of the principal and additional diagnosis listed.
Prove your answer to be correct by identifying the specific coding guideline(s) you are using for validation.
Use the 3M encoder to code the principal and secondary diagnoses based on your answer of the correct code(s) to be assigned.
These are the diagnoses to validate