Structure & Function
These two bean-shaped organs filter the blood and produce urine.
What are the kidneys?
This combining form means kidney.
Ren/o
A patient complains of burning with urination, frequency, and urgency. The provider documents inflammation of the bladder.
Cystitis
UA
Urinalysis
This medication class makes you urinate more and is sometimes called a “water pill.”
Diuretics
I am a pair of muscular tubes carrying urine from the kidneys to the bladder. Who am I
What are the ureters?
Cyst/o refers to which urinary structure?
Bladder
The presence of stones in the urinary system is called ______.
Urolithiasis
C&S
Culture & Sensitivity
A patient has a bacterial urinary tract infection. Which general medication category might be prescribed?
Antibiotics. What are some examples?
I am the organ that has the detrusor muscle signaling the brain, "we're getting full."
What is the urinary bladder?
If ureter/o means ureter, what does ureteritis mean?
Inflammation of the ureter
A patient's kidneys suddenly lose their ability to adequately filter waste from the blood.
Acute kidney injury (AKI)
BUN
Blood urea nitrogen
This medication class helps with bladder spasms.
Antispasmodics
These microscopic functional units of the kidneys perform filtration, reabsorption, and secretion.
What are nephrons?
What does pyel/o refer to?
Renal pelvis
A patient has inflammation involving the kidney's filtering structures—the glomeruli.
Glomerulonephritis
Kidney, Ureter, Bladder
Coder's Challenge: A patient is documented as having chronic kidney disease, stage 3b. Which ICD-10-CM code should be assigned?
N18.32 — Chronic kidney disease, stage 3b
Put these structures in the correct order:
Urethra – Kidneys – Bladder – Ureters
Break down nephrolithiasis.
Condition involving kidney stones
nephr/o = kidney
lith = stone
-iasis = abnormal condition
Coder's Challenge: A patient has kidney disease that gradually worsens over time and is documented by stages.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD)
Coder's Challenge: Patient has a dx of CKD stage 5 & ESRD, how many ICD-10 codes are assigned and what does ESRD stand for?
1; N18.6
Coder's Challenge: Assign ICD-10, CPT, & HCPCS (No E/M)
A 45-year-old female comes to the physician's office complaining of burning with urination (dysuria), urinary frequency, and lower abdominal pressure for two days.
The physician orders an automated urinalysis without microscopy. The urinalysis supports the diagnosis, and the physician documents acute cystitis without hematuria.
The patient is prescribed an oral antibiotic but given Ketorolac tromethamine 15mg IM for pain.
N30.00 Acute cystitis without hematuria, urinalysis, automated, without microscopy, J1885
*REMEMBER: ICD-10= why pt was tx, CPT=what was done, & HCPCS=what else was given/supplied*