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Take These 6 Steps, Code Therapeutic Drug Encounters Easily

Published on Mon Jan 10, 2022

Concentrate on the dose and you won’t waste time. Coding for therapeutic injections can be problematic for a number of reasons, chief among them being calculating the number of units of a given drug. That calculation often involves a confusing conversion from your pediatrician’s dosage to the units of the HCPCS code applicable to the drug. That can be made [...]
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