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Shed Light On Pediatric Obesity Interventions

Published on Wed Aug 23, 2023

Understand counseling criteria that justifies each code set. Addressing childhood obesity presents a challenge due to the difficulty in pinpointing the most effective treatment. Nevertheless, recent research conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) suggests that intervention methods may be more beneficial than initially believed. Diagnosing obesity requires clinicians calculate body mass index (BMI). However, BMI coding comes with [...]
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