Thread: Saw the PDoc
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Old Sep 24, 2004, 04:26 PM
PaigeTurner PaigeTurner is offline
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it is standard clinical practice to list a CODE for the diagnosis. it's used for insurance billing, etc.

if you really want to know the diagnosis... you can see if your pdoc will answer that question directly. or you can look it up yourself, in the DSM.

keep in mind, diagnosis codes impact insurance coverage. i don't know the context of the paperwork on which the code was recorded... but... as with many practices in which clinicians need to secure compensation for their fee... or seek to protect their patient's ongoing insurability... these codes are used STRATEGICALLY.

they function for many purposes... and aren't, necessarily, the be-all, end-all of your clinical profile.