HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2017 Issue 42 (October)

Q&A: Linking pneumonia and dyspnea

October 17th, 2017

Q: If the principal diagnosis is pneumonia, do I also need to code the symptom dyspnea? Or is the dyspnea integral to the pneumonia?

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