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Pneumothorax Codes Will Offer Better Choices in 2014

Published on Thu Feb 14, 2013

There’ll be no more need for ‘unspecified’ diagnoses. Several treatments are available for pneumothorax, including surgery to "coat" the patient’s lung to repair the current leak and prevent against future ones. Currently, anytime your anesthesiologist is involved in these cases, you report diagnosis 512.8x (Pneumothorax). The three specific choices depend on how the condition is classified: 512.81 -- Primary spontaneous pneumothorax [...]
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