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Watch to Exclude Urinary Retention as a CC with BPH
Published on Fri Nov 14, 2014
Question: Urinary retention is on the standard CC list. Can we report it as such when the patient has presented with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)? Texas Subscriber Answer: Urinary retention would be your secondary diagnosis. Some secondary diagnoses may act as CCs with a certain diagnosis, but not with others. For a secondary diagnosis to count as a CC, it should consistently [...]