A doctor notes in a patient’s medical record, “C. auris.” How do you code this? Hopefully, you’ll never come across this diagnosis in a chart beyond this hypothetical scenario, but the odds you will are increasing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers C. auris an emerging pathogen because increasing numbers of infections […]
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