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Dysphagia diagnosis

Date: Oct 4, 2023

Question:

When a patient comes in for a G-tube placement and has dysphagia secondary to ALS or in other instances dysphagia due to throat cancer what would be the proper diagnosis coding/sequencing? Is dysphagia considered inherent to ALS and not coded at all? In patients with throat cancer would the dysphagia be coded first since that is why they are getting the G-tube? Or would dysphagia be considered a sign/symptom of the cancer and not coded? If both dysphagia and cancer should be coded, what would be the proper sequencing?

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