Neurology & Pain Management Coding Alert

Reader Questions:

Know Role of Independent Historian

Question: I am working as a coder for the first time and one of my providers wrote that they received information about the patient from an “independent historian.” I don’t think the patient is an important political figure or anything, and they’re also still alive, according to their record, so I don’t understand what a historian has to do with their [...]
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