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Understand UTI Coding Post Pregnancy

Published on Fri Mar 15, 2024

Question: I’ve coded urinary tract infections (UTIs) several times, but my colleagues are telling me the coding is different for patients who are pregnant or have recently been pregnant. What is the correct code for those patients? California Subscriber Answer: It’s true that coding for UTIs is generally pretty straightforward. If you know the site of the infection, the codes are pretty [...]
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