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Hypertensive Heart and Chronic Kidney Disease

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becktotten

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Hi All,
When a patient has hypertension with heart disease and/or CKD, and the hypertension is documented as pulmonary hypertension, do I code the pulmonary hypertension in addition to the combination code to show what type of hypertension it is?
Thanks for your help!
 
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