You Be the Coder:
Breathe New Life Into Your Understanding of Asthma Coding
Published on Tue Aug 16, 2022
Question: My provider assessed a patient with asthma who was experiencing acute exacerbations twice a week, which was limiting the patient’s activities. The patient uses an inhaler more than twice a week, but not daily. A pulmonary function test (PFT) recorded a forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) >80%, and the provider diagnosed an acute exacerbation of mild persistent type [...]