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Pediatrics:

Look to 'Z' Codes When Patients Turns out to Be Healthy

Published on Tue Nov 15, 2016

Remember that Z00.129 isn’t your only well-visit option. Pediatric practices are all too familiar with this scenario: A worried parent, especially the new one, who wants to bring the baby in just to make sure everything is okay. Maybe it’s a six-month-old whose mother thinks is teething, or perhaps it’s a one-year-old who is cranky and maybe he has an [...]
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