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Thyroid diseases: Clinical documentation and ICD-10-CM coding
Thyroid disorders challenge outpatient hospital coders because the record often contains symptoms, laboratory values, medications, imaging findings, and surgical history before it contains a clear final diagnosis. Those clues can help a coder understand the encounter, but they do not authorize the coder to diagnose the patient.
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