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Question 

You have experienced manually coding diagnoses using the ICD-10-CM coding manual by choosing a main term and learning about the principal diagnosis. Next, read the following coding scenario to answer this week's mandatory prompts.

"A patient arrived in the emergency room at Southwest General Hospital with a fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. The patient was admitted and treated for dehydration. After reviewing the lab results and x-rays, the patient was diagnosed with intestinal flu".

2. Initial Post: Create a new thread and answer all three parts of the initial prompt below

1. Which condition is the principal diagnosis? Explain in your own words why you chose that as the principal diagnosis.

2. What ICD-10-CM code(s) would you assign for the above scenario?

3. Explain why you would assign the code(s) you chose