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Who’s Responsible for Sequencing Multiple Diagnosis Codes?

Published on Mon Sep 29, 2025

Question: When a physician makes multiple diagnoses on a patient during an encounter, is the provider responsible for sequencing the diagnoses in order of severity or is the coder? Codify Subscriber Answer: The ICD-10-CM code book doesn’t specify whose responsibility it is to sequence the codes in order of severity, and the code set doesn’t contain a specific guideline stating [...]
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