I have some confusion regarding Pregnancy coding in the Emergency Department.
If it is the provider’s responsibility to document that a pregnancy is incidental to the Emergency Room encounter, I assume that all encounters that are not documented as such are to be coded from Chapter 15 of the ICD 10.
If the patient is 38 years old, would it be appropriate to use Supervision of High Risk Pregnancy – Elderly Primigravida or Multigravida on the ED encounter, or is "Supervision" for use by OB/GYN?
Thanks you,
Sue