I need to know what is the guideline for assigning tobacco use disorder complicating pregnancy. I was told that if the physician stated that the patient smokes to assign this code. Can anyone tell me where to find the guidelines for this code? Any help would be appreciated.
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Wiki OB on smoking
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mitchellde
True Blue
look in your coding guidelines, but what other code would you use?