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Simplify Stomach Pain Coding with These 3 Hints

Published on Tue Jun 05, 2018

Know severity, location, and guidelines for accurate documentation. Abdominal problems are common complaints, but coding them is far from routine. With so many variables to take into account, coders can become confused as they try to zero in on the most specific diagnosis code to describe the patient's condition. So, we asked our experts for some hints to simplify coding [...]
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