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Wiki Sinusitis

Thread starter JulesofColorado
Start date Jan 30, 2013

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JulesofColorado

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Jan 30, 2013

If a diagnosis of sinusitis is given with no site specified and not specified as acute or chronic, is it coded to acute or chronic? Doesn't it say somewhere in the guidelines that if a condition is not specified as acute or chronic it should be coded to acute?

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