A63 year-old came in to the ed with severe shortness of breath and goes into respiratory failure. he was intubated and admitted for acute respiratory failure. chest x-ray shows he has pleural effusion. what icd-10-cm code(s) is/are reported?

J96.00, J90

Explanation:

ICD-10-CM are codes represented by a combination of letters and numbers. These codes represented by numbers are part of the set of International Codes of Diseases which is responsible for determining and classifying diseases as well as symptoms, complaints, external causes, signs, abnormal aspects and social circumstances for illness or injury. Its main objective is to create a standard coding for diseases. Because it is in its tenth version, published in 1992, doctors now use the acronym CID followed by the number ten to refer to this classification.

The ICD-10-CM codes used to identify acute respiratory failure and pleural effusion are J96.00 and J90.

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