Which of the following HCC codes is overused by primary care physicians?

Which of the following HCC codes is overused by primary care physicians?

Answer:

Answer:

No wrong answers. All four of these codes are commonly used but lack helpful specificity.

No wrong answers. All four of these codes are commonly used but lack helpful specificity.

  • E11.9 -- Type 2 diabetes is rarely without complications in the elderly

  • N18.3 -- Providers often fail to code the stage, such as N18.31 or N18.32

  • F32.9 -- In depression, be sure to document severity (F32.2) Major depressive disorder, single episode, unspecified

  • I50.9 -- In heart failure, is it chronic, diastolic or systolic? It is never good to leave unspecified codes.

Specificity matters.

Specificity matters.

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