Hello, Help me please. My providers are using a diagnosis of M72.6, necrotizing soft tissue infection but they are not sure what the "causative" organism is. Path comes back as "polymicrobial" which I have researched and found could be either bacterial, viral or fungal or a combination. How would we code for the NSTI, M72.6 with a finding of this polymicrobial organism?
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Resolved Polymicrobial infection with NSTI
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Lori
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Microbiology
No specific combination of bacterial species is either diagnostic of NSTI or found in all cases. A wide spectrum of organisms are commonly recovered (table 3). In a relatively recent series, approximately two-thirds of cases were polymicrobial, and one-third were monomicrobial, with the great majority of monomicrobial cases being a result of gram-positive cocci.Since polymicrobial infection involves more than one species of pathogen,perhaps- Infection specified NEC, B99.8 for other infectious disease
Necrotizing Soft-Tissue Infection: Diagnosis and Management
Abstract. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections (NSTIs) are highly lethal. They are frequent enough that general and specialty physicians will likely have to be in
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Thank you so much for your help. Thanks.
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