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Wiki Atypical Depression

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Start date Apr 13, 2012

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Apr 13, 2012

I am a MRA auditor and ran into a progress note with Atypical depression (nothing else stated) documented by a PCP and the office is coding it as 296.82. I believe it should be coded as 311 if there is not documentation of the patient being Bi-polar. What do you think?

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