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Flu Coding:

Are You Up to Date on Your Influenza Diagnoses?

Published on Fri Apr 14, 2017

Avoid denials by coding symptoms supporting medical necessity of flu visits. This has been a bad year for influenza in many areas of the country and emergency departments (EDs) have seen many patients with flu like symptoms. People without regular physicians, or whose symptoms become too severe to wait to see their primary care physician, end up in the ED [...]
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