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Test COPD and Asthma Coding Skills With These 4 Scenarios

Published on Fri Mar 17, 2017

Clinical signs of moderate and mild asthma to drive your choice of codes. You report COPD and asthma all the time, but are you sure you’re correctly identifying asthma type and the specific cause for a patient’s COPD from the provider’s notes? Refresh your COPD and asthma coding acumen with these examples. Case 1: A past smoker complaining of breathlessness [...]
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