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Should You Always Code Smoking Status?

Published on Wed Jan 09, 2019

Question: At the beginning of the J section in the ICD10-CM manual, there is a note to code also, “where applicable,” the smoking status of a patient. Does “where applicable” pertain to where the code also is noted in the tabular or if it pertains to where the provider notes a smoking status in a record? Codify Subscriber Answer: The [...]
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