Resolved Post vaccine reaction

[MaryW_64032]

For post vaccine reaction from flu shot pt with arm swelling. I get T881.xxa looks like I don’t code adverse effect with the T88.1? Thank you. Just the T881.xxa and the arm swelling ?

 

[Tiffany]

For post vaccine reaction from flu shot pt with arm swelling. I get T881.xxa looks like I don’t code adverse effect with the T88.1? Thank you. Just the T881.xxa and the arm swelling ?

You would need to code the adverse effect of the influenza shot along with T88.1XXA and M79.89. There is an instructional note to "use additional code for adverse effect, if applicable, to identify drug (T36-T50) with fifth or sixth character 5)."