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Anxiety/Depression single diagnosis? - anon

Posted: Oct 24, 2014

I've noticed that docs often dictate anxiety and depression as a single diagnosis, but I think they are separate since one could suffer from one without suffering from the other. Should these be separated (such as when numbering diagnoses), or can they be considered a single entity?

I've often thought the same thing. - no answer for you.

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If they don't say "and" or "next" (as in numbering) or give the next number, I do it like you have it - with a slash: Anxiety/Depression.

I happen to agree with you about having one without the other, but what I "think" about if and/or why they may or may not be separate diagnoses doesn't matter. Whatever their reason is for running the two together (maybe it's a billing/coding issue, maybe they are just lazy, maybe..... don't know, don't care) -- if that's how they say it, that's how I type it.

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This is even in BOS. A virgule means things on either side are the same, a dash means things on either side are different.

patient-doctor relationship=there is a

patient with a separate doctor
patient/doctor relationship=the doctor is his own patient

I would put anxiety-depression as they are NOT the same thing.

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