Acute Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Infants (AIPHI)
For new ICD-9-CM code 786.31 Acute idiopathic pulmonary hemorrhage in infants
(AIPHI), do not confuse it with existing code 770.3 Pulmonary hemorrhage of
newborn under 28 days.
Bonnie G. Schreck, CCS, CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, has been in health care for 25 years. She started in the field in medical records at an HMO, and then worked at a major University teaching facility, billing, then coding, ED, outpatient and inpatient visits. She has worked at the AAPC as a Coding Manager and with a major health care data company, having responsibility for specialty and other coding reference books and healthcare coding content. She has also performed many seminars and audits for hospitals and physicians, mainly on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10, CPT and HCPCS coding. Bonnie currently is the Director of Clinical Content at Contexo Media, where she manages coding books and healthcare data content. She is a member of AHIMA and the AAPC.
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