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Take These Tips, Keep Your Tonsillitis Coding on Track

Published on Wed Oct 14, 2020

Remember: Acute and chronic conditions aren’t subject to timeframes. A child presenting with inflamed, coated tonsils and swollen glands is one of the most common scenarios in all of pediatrics. But coding it isn’t quite as straightforward as reaching for a code from J03.- (Acute tonsillitis) or J35.- (Chronic diseases of tonsils and adenoids) when your pediatrician diagnoses a case [...]
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