Inpatient vs. outpatient coding differences place provider certainty under the spotlight, raise risk adjustment question

By Brian Murphy Why can diagnoses in the hospital inpatient setting be coded if they are possible/probable/likely/suspected, but in the outpatient world you can only code to the highest degree of known specificity? The difference is rooted in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. In the hospital inpatient setting, you are allowed to…

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