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Stay Prepared With These Tonsillitis Tips

Published on Wed Nov 04, 2020

Use these five tips to boost your coding accuracy. If you work with a pediatric practice, you know how common it is for a child to come in with swollen glands and inflamed tonsils. But is your tonsillitis coding up to snuff? Here are five tips for choosing the right code — tonsillitis coding goes beyond simply choosing J03.- (Acute [...]
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