Gastroenterology Coding Alert

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Check These Tips When Coding Esophageal Motility Studies

Your documentation holds coding clues — you just need to know where to look. Every GI practice sees patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) from time to time, and while you might be adept at coding the diagnoses for this condition, it may be more challenging to code diagnostic tests like esophageal motility studies. If you could use a primer [...]
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