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Solidify Your Understanding of Sequencing Asthma and its Triggers

Published on Mon Sep 11, 2023

Question: One of our patients came in experiencing exacerbation of their asthma due to acute bronchitis from a parainfluenza virus infection. How to I properly sequence the codes? Wisconsin Subscriber
Answer: Sequencing is important when coding for asthma, and as you already have noticed, parent code J45.- (Asthma) features instructions to use an additional code to identify certain triggers of [...]
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