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These Key Terms Will Decide Whether You Report 94620 or 94621

Published on Tue Sep 02, 2014

Ignoring CCI bundles can put the brakes on all your coding efforts. Today’s fitness conscious world has brought on a new problem — exercise-induced pulmonary stress. Your pulmonologist will resort to tests known as Pulmonary stress tests (PST, a.k.a. exercise testing) whenever she comes across patients complaining of breathing problems and/or wheezing they encountered after strenuous exercising. You can pick [...]
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