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Tips Upgrade Your HPI Precision

Check out these expert tips for deciding how to count documented HPI elements. Todd Thomas CPC, CCS-P, President of ERcoder, Inc. in Edmond, OK offers the following clarifications of what each HPI element means:   Location is often an anatomic descriptor. It can be as basic as left ankle, distal radius or epigastric pain, or more descriptive such as diffuse [...]
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