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Gain Insight Into Obesity Intervention Encounters

Published on Thu Apr 06, 2023

Understand counseling criteria that justifies each code set. Treating childhood obesity is difficult, as it is nearly impossible to identify an optimal treatment. However, recent studies performed by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggest that intervention is more helpful than previously thought. Diagnosing obesity requires the clinician to calculate body mass index (BMI). However, BMI coding comes with some confounding [...]
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