Pediatric Coding:
Determined Diagnosis Makes All the Difference
Published on Mon Mar 10, 2025
Question: A 6-year-old patient was seen for abdominal pain, diarrhea, and nausea with vomiting. My provider did a thorough exam and diagnosed the patient with unspecified infectious gastroenteritis. My coworker trained me to submit claims with the symptoms in order of severity, so the nausea with vomiting was first, followed by diarrhea, then the abdominal pain, then the gastroenteritis. The claim [...]
