A 76-year-old morbidly obese white male, was admitted to the facility with an acute exacerbation of COPD. He is a previous smoker, but has not smoked for the past year because his breathing issues have continued to worsen. He was started on oxygen and treated with an oral corticosteroid with prophylactic antibiotics administered. The progress note of day two states that the pressure ulcer of his right heel (stage 4) was non-excisionally debrided at the bedside. As an auditor, you will review the POA status, code assignment, and DRG assignment shown below fro this patient’s stay.
POA Status ICD-10-CM codes assigned DRG assignment 192
Y J44.1
N L89.614
Y E66.01
E Z87.891

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Mrs. kirby, 58, is a moderately active woman. she works in the garden almost daily, occasionally walks with her friends, and babysits her three very active young grandchildren every weekend. she eats a fairly standard diet every day: she has cereal with milk and coffee for breakfast, some kind of salad for lunch, and a piece of meat or fish with a healthy of veggies for dinner. she usually skips desserts or has just a couple of strawberries. when asked to look at the food labels and calculate her intake of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins in grams over the entire day, on an average day, she came up with the following numbers: carbohydrates: 243 g fats: 41 g proteins: 63 g calculate what percentage of mrs. kirby's total energy intake came from carbohydrates.