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ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert
2021 Newsletter
Reader Questions: What’s ‘Diabetes 1.5’?
ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert
Reader Questions:
What’s ‘Diabetes 1.5’?
Published on Mon Jul 12, 2021
Question: Our provider recently documented a patient as having both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. I have heard of this being called diabetes 1.5, [...]
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