Medical Coding Ejection Fraction Diagnosis
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Medical Coding Ejection Fraction Diagnosis
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Q: [Ejection Fraction] What is an ejection fraction? Can I code an ejection fraction of 0% as with occlusion?
A: Now, ejection fraction just happens to be part of a cardiology aspect as well. You have ejection fractions for your gallbladder but you also have ejection fraction as most commonly known for cardiology. It’s pretty exciting. When I saw this question, I looked at and I thought, “OK, what is an ejection fraction?” and first of all, I spelled it wrong when I was thinking of it, I spelled it like injection, you give somebody an injection. But this is actually spelled with an “e” and they’re saying, “Can I code an ejection fraction of 0% as with occlusion?”
Well, let’s talk about what it is. By definition, ejection fraction is a measurement of the percentage of blood leaving your heart each time it contracts. So, picture your heart, you’ve got the two chambers at the top, and you have the two chambers at the bottom. The two chambers at the bottom are called ventricles. You have a right ventricle and a left ventricle. It just so happens that the left ventricle is the one that has the most power, fills up with the most blood. So, they can check both of them, but usually they start with the left ventricle.
What happens is when that contracts, it pushes out the blood, so then when it opens back up, the blood pushes into that ventricle. You have a certain capacity that that ventricle, that chamber can hold; and as it contracts and pushes that blood up pass the valve into the atrium, the ejection fraction is the amount of blood that pushes that gets out of the chamber, but some of that blood is left in the ventricle. So, let’s say that you’re never going to get 100% of the blood to go up into the atrium, there will be a little bit left, so they take how much went up there, let’s say, 85%; so then that’s how they measure that. It’s not what’s left in the ventricle, it’s how much got pushed through. There are guidelines that tell you how much is normal; so it’s measured.
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Q: [Ejection Fraction] What is an ejection fraction? Can I code an ejection fraction of 0% as with occlusion?
A: Now, ejection fraction just happens to be part of a cardiology aspect as well. You have ejection fractions for your gallbladder but you also have ejection fraction as most commonly known for cardiology. It’s pretty exciting. When I saw this question, I looked at and I thought, “OK, what is an ejection fraction?” and first of all, I spelled it wrong when I was thinking of it, I spelled it like injection, you give somebody an injection. But this is actually spelled with an “e” and they’re saying, “Can I code an ejection fraction of 0% as with occlusion?”
Well, let’s talk about what it is. By definition, ejection fraction is a measurement of the percentage of blood leaving your heart each time it contracts. So, picture your heart, you’ve got the two chambers at the top, and you have the two chambers at the bottom. The two chambers at the bottom are called ventricles. You have a right ventricle and a left ventricle. It just so happens that the left ventricle is the one that has the most power, fills up with the most blood. So, they can check both of them, but usually they start with the left ventricle.
What happens is when that contracts, it pushes out the blood, so then when it opens back up, the blood pushes into that ventricle. You have a certain capacity that that ventricle, that chamber can hold; and as it contracts and pushes that blood up pass the valve into the atrium, the ejection fraction is the amount of blood that pushes that gets out of the chamber, but some of that blood is left in the ventricle. So, let’s say that you’re never going to get 100% of the blood to go up into the atrium, there will be a little bit left, so they take how much went up there, let’s say, 85%; so then that’s how they measure that. It’s not what’s left in the ventricle, it’s how much got pushed through. There are guidelines that tell you how much is normal; so it’s measured.
Read more here:
https://www.cco.us/medical-coding-eje...
Get More Medical Coding Training, Medical Coding Course, Medical Coding Tips, Medical Coding Certification and CEU Credits at https://www.cco.us/cco-monthly-newsle...
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