ICD Diagnosis- Can You Code A Working Diagnosis?

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ICD working diagnosis. “Is it acceptable to code a working ICD diagnosis?” said another way- “For the ICD code, do you code the symptoms or the working diagnosis?”
Basically, for physician and outpatient coders, we do not code working diagnoses, only definitive ones. So if there is no definitive diagnosis, we code the signs and symptoms.