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Emergency During Office Visit? Consider Your Coding Options

Published on Thu Jun 07, 2018

When an office visit turns to an emergency situation, know which codes to report. Although it may not happen every day, pulmonologists do sometimes see patients whose conditions are so critical that the visit turns into an emergency situation. There are a few potential ways to code these visits, so it's important to know all the options before you submit [...]
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