HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2016 Issue 34 (September)

Q&A: Reporting coronary artery disease and hypertension

September 13th, 2016

Q: Is it true that if the patient has hypertension and heart disease such as coronary artery disease that the coder may code the hypertension from the I11 (hypertensive heart disease) series of codes?

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