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Reader Question:

Don't Report 496 For Specified COPD Diagnosis

Published on Tue Sep 10, 2013

Question: Our pulmonologist recently diagnosed a patient to be suffering from Emphysema/ COPD, chronic bronchitis and asthma. How would the diagnosis be reported?

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