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Patient comes in for an endoscopy because of abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, which are the only listed diagnoses. Endoscopy is normal.

In the history of the report it states this patient has a history of hypertension and depression. Is the hypertension coded as an additional diagnosis and if so why?

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