When both a confirmed diagnosis and an unrelated symptom are equally responsible for services provided:

a. always sequence the confirmed diagnosis.
b. always sequence the unrelated symptom first.
c. sequence either code first.
d. query the provider to ask which to sequence first.


Answer: c

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