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Consider Duration, DOS for High-Level Problem MDM Decisions

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2022

Question: One of our providers always documents that his patients with an active cancer diagnosis have a chronic illness that poses a threat to life or bodily function even when the patient is doing well and stable on the current regimen. Does this mean that all cancer patients should be considered at the high level of medical decision making (MDM) for [...]
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