Milestone 1.docx (2) HIM 215 Milestone 1 HIM 215 Patient has diabetes mellitus type

Milestone 1.docx (2)    HIM 215  Milestone 1  HIM 215  Patient has diabetes mellitus type 1 and hypertension according to the chart. The patient is currently prescribed Prinivil 20 milligram daily and a Humulin injection 70/30 at 20 units before breakfast.  The primary diagnosis is diabetes mellitus and the secondary diagnosis is the hypertension. I came to this decision since patient is primarily being seen for her diabetes at this time.  The main term for diabetes mellitus type 1 is diabetes and the secondary term is Type 1. Diabetes is the main term because it is the condition the patient has. For hypertension, hypertension is the main term, and the secondary is Essential. Hypertension is the disorder that the patient has.  When I use the main term diabetes in the encoder it comes back with many 644 ICD-10 codes, 41 CPT codes, 27 HCPCS, 1 modifier, and 284 ICD-9 codes. The patient diagnosis states that she has diabetes mellitus type 1, when searching the data base, I would choose the code with the exact terms of type 1 diabetes mellitus, because all the other codes explain underlying causes or other types. This patient™s chart does not indicate underlying cause or any other type.  For hypertension benign essential I input just the term hypertension and came back   With 103 ICD-10 codes, 13 CPT, 8 HCPCS, 111 ICD-9 codes, and no modifiers. I would search through and again find exact terms of the written diagnosis in the patient™s chart. The list was very long using just the main term, when I put