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Coding Sinusitis: Not as Simple as Chronic vs. Acute

Published on Fri Jun 16, 2017

Take other factors into consideration when coding sinusitis. Common sense might suggest that if the term chronic is not present, then you will code sinusitis as acute. However, when you’re coding ICD-10, you go where the index tells you to go. And, as any coder knows, the index can only take you so far when it comes to particular diagnoses. [...]
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