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ICD-10 Update:

Concentrate on Severity While Reporting Asthma With J45

Published on Thu Nov 28, 2013

Hint: Identify symptoms and medication use for accurate reporting. When your FP diagnoses asthma, you’ll have to focus more on the severity of the condition to accurately report the diagnosis with ICD-10 codes rather than paying attention to the etiology as you need to do when reporting this condition using the ICD-9 system of codes. ICD-9: When reporting a diagnosis [...]
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