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Factor in Whether Heart Failure is Involved

Published on Wed Nov 21, 2018

Question: I’m new to cardiology coding, and I was wondering if there are different codes you should report if the patient has hypertension and stage 2 chronic kidney disease (CKD) without heart failure versus if the patient has hypertension and stage 2 CKD with heart failure? And, someone in the office said we must also include the stage of the [...]
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