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    Wiki End stage liver disease

    Would you code cirrhosis and end stage liver disease as two separate codes? Or is cirrhosis included in end stage liver disease?
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    Wiki hepatic encephalopathy with alcoholic cirrhosis with ascites - I'm a physician coder

    I'm a physician coder and I'm having difficulties deciding whether to codes these conditions together. From what I understand, hepatic encephalopathy is a condition caused by failure of the liver, so the Dx of hepatic encephalopathy requires the presence of impaired liver function (alcoholic...
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    Wiki hepatic encephalopathy with alcoholic cirrhosis with ascites

    I'm a physician coder and I'm having difficulties deciding whether to codes these conditions together. From what I understand, hepatic encephalopathy is a condition caused by failure of the liver, so the Dx of hepatic encephalopathy requires the presence of impaired liver function (alcoholic...
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