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Pulmonary Coding:

See Beyond Extensive Diagnostic Testing for Pulmonary Hypertension Coding

Published on Wed Jul 03, 2019

Keep digging through the symptoms until you find the diagnosis, then code. Selecting the right code to describe a patient’s pulmonary hypertension will depend on several key factors including whether the hypertension is arterial or is caused by lung disease. Choose the right code from the ICD-10-CM I27.0 (Primary pulmonary hypertension) and I27.2- (Other secondary pulmonary hypertension) code range, using [...]
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