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Symptoms include: intense hunger, weight gain in winter, sleep more than usual, depressed more in the evening than the morning. Licenses and Attributions. I do encourage you to run a report of your top 25 most utilized diagnosis codes and then copy the section pages for one or two of them to review each week.
As a clinician, you will be able to peruse the listings and understand what specificity that section is looking for. Pay particular attention to any of your top codes that end in the number 9. Take an extra moment with these and see if there might be a more specific code that would be more appropriate to use. With the next round of quality and value-based incentives and disincentives just around the corner, your choice of the most appropriate and specific code may make a difference in your scores, and ultimately, your reimbursement.
Take that five minutes for review. It may be an invaluable use of your time.
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