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Primary Care: Pinpoint Infectious vs. Noninfectious Gastroenteritis

Published on Fri Oct 23, 2015

The tests ordered can help guide you in the right direction. When your provider documents that a patient has gastroenteritis, before you can choose a code, you will have to check if the condition is infectious or noninfectious gastroenteritis. The good news is that you have a one-to-one transition codes for the different types of non-infectious gastroenteritis in the ICD-10 [...]
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