Codes for Chronic Kidney Disease: Help in Distinguishing between Renal Failure and Renal Insufficiency
Coders assign codes to disease processes for many reasons, including capturing diseases treated at facilities, accurate representation of illness severity, and specificity of causes of symptoms and justification for treatment. To this end, we have been perplexed by terminology used by physicia....
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