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Code This New Patient Encounter From Start to Finish

Published on Wed Feb 08, 2023

Stay on top of opportunities to report SDoH. As a peds coder, you’re used to coding new patient encounters. After all, babies are born all the time. But sometimes the new patients aren’t newborns, and the information can get confusing, especially if the patient has an existing condition such as type 1 diabetes. The potential for miscoding is always lurking. [...]
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