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Guide Your Liver Condition Coding to Clean Claims

Published on Wed Dec 20, 2023

Focus on presenting Dx. When your surgeon treats a patient with a liver condition, knowing what and how to document the diagnosis to establish medical necessity can be a challenge. From cirrhosis to hepatitis to cancer, correct coding may — or may not — rely on documenting the condition’s underlying cause, such as alcohol intake or distant metastasis. If you’re [...]
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