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Add This Advice to Your Asthma Coding Armory

Published on Wed Jun 19, 2019

Use this guide to capture conditions correctly. You know that the J45.- (Asthma) codes are broken down into four distinct states: mild intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, and severe persistent. But do you how to differentiate between the different levels of severity? Or between uncomplicated conditions and status asthmaticus? Coding to the highest degree of specificity is important for any [...]
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