The software that we use allows the provider to add diagnosis codes to a section of the progress note, however a lot of the time the codes are not correct (eg. documentation says "Diabetes Type I", but provider lists code for DM type II). My supervisor insists that I need to contact the provider each time this happens and ask him to edit the DX code section of the note to have the correct codes. The provider doesn’t appreciate this since it happens a lot. To me, this seems unnecessary since…
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