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    Wiki Epigastric pain while pregnant

    Hi all. Patient comes in complaining of epigastric pain. She happens to be pregnant. The provider has a guess as to the reason for her pain (not pregnancy) and wants her to get an EGD after the birth of the baby. The provider does not explicitly say the pregnancy is incidental to the visit. Is...
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    Wiki hernia repair hierarchy?

    Is there some type of hierarchy for how to code hernia repairs? For instance, if the surgeon states he did a epigastric incisional hernia repair, is this coded as an epigastric hernia repair or as an incisional hernia repair?
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