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Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies (Single Article)

Syncope: A dizzying coding subject
December 2002

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By Robert S. Gold, MDAn admission presentation of “syncope” should rarely result in a discharge diagnosis (diagnosis after work-up) of syncope. Unfortunately, physicians don’t always make that clear to coders.Physicians go through an expansive thought process when faced with a patient who has apparently fainted. The possible severity in this event ranges from mere fainting with virtually no clinical implications to a life-and-death emergency. Doctors must first determine whether the case is a life-or-death situation. The physician has to immediately rule out acute myo

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