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[ManivannanGovindhan]

Patient Reason for Exam is Pleural Effusion, Exam performed Chest X Ray two views and Impression line is Consistent with Pleural effusion. Please guide me can i code Pleural effusion...

 

[tag60]

For outpatient coding, no. You can do a search of "consistent with" in box at top right for some more discussion on this.

 

[solocoder]

What about "appears to have"?

 

[sujaya101]

No, you can't. These terms point towards a suggestive dx which can't be coded in office setting. Query your provider if possible.