HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2018 Issue 30 (July)

Dissecting pediatric dysphagia for better ICD-10-CM code assignment

July 24th, 2018

Amy Sanderson, MD, says that the term “dysphagia” has many synonyms used by providers in medical documentation. However, not all of these symptoms are able to describe the diagnosis with enough specificity so that it can be translated into its corresponding code assignment.

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