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Chronic Bronchitis Can Be Difficult to Code

Published on Mon Nov 05, 2018

Question: We had a patient come in with bronchitis and the physician didn’t specify the type, so we reported acute bronchitis. But when the claim was audited, we were told that based on their review of the x-ray and the notes, the patient actually had chronic bronchiolitis. How would we know how to code the difference? Codify Subscriber Answer: Considering [...]
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