Pulmonology Coding Alert

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Inoculate Your Coding Against Flu Vaccine Errors With These 4 Tips

Hint: Base reporting on vaccine brands for Medicare patients. When your pulmonologist provides flu vaccinations, you’ll finesse your vaccine code selection by factoring in the age of the patient, viral strains the vaccine works against, administration route, and the presence of preservatives in the vaccine. Tip 1: Capture Vaccine Strains to Initiate Code Choice The first thing that you will [...]
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