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Understand Clinical Concepts, Bust These Asthma Coding Myths

Published on Fri Jun 10, 2022

Understand severity levels for flawless J45.- assignment. The myths surrounding the J45.- (Asthma) codes may be few, but they are tenacious. Fortunately, they are also easily dispelled with a little clinical knowledge and an understanding of two significant ICD-10 guidelines. In this article, we’ve rounded up four particularly persistent coding misconceptions surrounding these common pediatric diagnosis codes. We’ve also provided [...]
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