Question

6 A 52-year-old woman had been seen in her physician's office because of increasingly irritating symptomatology, including nervousness, irritability, increased perspiration, shakiness. and increased appetite with unexplained weight loss, increased heart rate, palpitations, sleeping difficulties, and other problems. The patient is returning to the office today to review her test results with her physician. The physician advised the patient of the following findings: the blood test for thyroid-stimulating hormone had an elevated measurement, and a nuclear medicine scan of the thyroid found hyperactivity in the entire gland. Based on these findings, the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism in the absence of a goiter (rule out Graves' disease) was made. The physician had eliminated a thyroid adenoma or a multinodular goiter as the cause of the hyperthyroidism. The patient was placed on an oral anti-thyroid medication to lower the level of thyroid hormones in the blood. Additional tests were ordered, and the patient was scheduled to return to the office in 10 days. Because the patient's heart palpitations were more pronounced than seen in other patients with hyperthyroidism, arrangements were made for her to have a consultation with a cardiologist tomorrow, First-Listed Diagnosis: Secondary Diagnoses:

please provide ICD-10-CM codes

Answer 1

FIRST LISTED DIAGNOSIS - HYPER THYROIDISM code -E5.90

SECONDARY DIAGNOSIS - GRAVES DISEASE code-E05