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Bolster Your Simple and Mucopurulent Chronic Bronchitis Coding

Published on Tue Mar 07, 2023

Find out what separates the J41.- conditions. If a pulmonologist’s report describes a patient’s bronchitis diagnosis as “simple,” with a more complex term like “mucopurulent,” or as a combination of the two, you might end up scratching your head as to what to search for in the ICD-10-CM code set. The good news is that the J41.- (Simple and mucopurulent [...]
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