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Consider These Codes for Concurrent Sinus and Flu Infections

Published on Wed Nov 16, 2022

Question: A patient with congestion, thick nasal drainage, facial pain, and a headache presented to the clinic, and our ENT documented diagnoses of the flu and acute maxillary and frontal sinusitis due to the infection. However, the physician didn’t specify the type of influenza virus. Which ICD-10-CM codes should I report for this encounter? Michigan Subscriber Answer: You’ll assign code J11.1 (Influenza [...]
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