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Use This Code and MDM Level When Depression, Anxiety Linked

Published on Thu Jul 08, 2021

Question: How do you code a patient who has depression and anxiety? Do you code the two conditions separately? Or can you use F41.8? Also, when two conditions like anxiety and depression are coded together with one code, can they be counted as two or more stable chronic illnesses in the number and complexity of problems addressed at the encounter [...]
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