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Substance Dependence: Do Your Charts Support it?

Drug and alcohol addiction are under the umbrella term of substance dependence in the DSM-V.  ICD-10 includes them all under the heading Mental and behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use, which is coded from F10 to F19.  In the … Read Full Post

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Alcohol Abuse vs. Dependence: Is it Fraudulent to Knowingly Soft-Pedal a Diagnosis?

Do you think a provider would chart heart disease for a patient with – say – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy because it’s a ‘warmer, fuzzier’ diagnosis? Or try to scare a patient with metabolic disorder into losing weight by diagnosing her prematurely … Read Full Post

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