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If a provider states in documentation that a patient has diabetes but the wound being treated is not stated as a diabetic wound, do you still code this as a diabetic wound because the patient does have diabetes? Are there some guidelines somewhere that someone could point me to?
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Specifically answering a question about nephropathy not specifically linked to DM, the AHA gave the instruction to code them separately. The explanation was that without a stated link, no link could be coded.
AHA Coding Clinic 2005 4Q, 2003 1Q, 1991 3Q, 1984-Sept-Oct

Since this provider is not linking the wound to DM, you cannot assume that link yourself.
 
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