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Determine 4th Digits for Definitive Diabetes Dx Documentation

Published on Wed Oct 13, 2021

These five numbers will help you locate diabetic complications quickly and easily. Nowhere is specificity more important than in coding for type 2 diabetes, so why do providers still insist on documenting diabetes as uncontrolled, especially when that is no longer a classification in ICD-10? That was the question Colleen Gianatasio, MHS, CPC, CPC-P, CPMA, CRC, CCS, CCDS-O, AAPC Approved [...]
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