A symptom code should not be assigned when it is considered to be routinely associated with a disease process.

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This statement is true. Symptoms that are commonly associated with certain diseases should not be coded as separate entities, as they are already factored in the diagnosis of the condition. For example, fever and cough are commonly associated with pneumonia, so they would not be separately coded when pneumonia is the diagnosis.

A Symptom Code Should Not Be Assigned When It Is