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Provide Dx for Monitoring Lab Test

Published on Thu Oct 15, 2020

Question: If one of our providers saw a patient for problems related to asthma, but went ahead to write a future lab order related to the patient’s diabetes/ hypertension even though this condition was not addressed during the encounter, would you add the diabetes diagnosis to the evaluation and management (E/M) claim as well as the asthma diagnosis? Codify Subscriber [...]
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