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Describe two ways assigning incorrect codes can affect a patients.​

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Assigning a wrong diagnostic code may be enormously costly, time-consuming, and ineffective for patients; more critically, it is a threat to patient safety and quality. It comes down to time, money, expense, costs, research, training, physician and hospital visits, treatment’s, surgeries, drugs, disabilities, death, quality healthcare, higher medical and life insurance premiums, lack of or no health insurance, heartache, malpractice, and just feeling down right ill! Not only to mention, ‘do I trust you?’

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