HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2016 Issue 16 (April)

Q&A: Our providers don’t always document correlation between symptoms and diagnoses

April 26th, 2016

Q: Our providers are reluctant to document a correlation between symptoms and a true diagnosis. Do you have any good ways to get them to do this? For example, our providers document diabetes but they often don't include additional details that should be there (e.g., gestational diabetes or type II diabetes mellitus in pregnancy).

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