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Selecting principal diagnoses in inpatient facilities

Adrienne Commeree, CPC, CPMA, CCS, CEMC, CPIP, writes about how the selection of the code and a principal diagnosis seems fairly straightforward, but there are multiple factors that must be considered and reviewed before a coder can assign a certain diagnosis as principal.

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