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Pay Close Attention to ICD-10-CM Coding Notes

Published on Tue Oct 20, 2020

Question: My cardiologist documented the patient as having hypertensive heart disease with acute systolic congestive heart failure. I’m new to cardiology coding, and I’m not sure which codes I should report on my claim and in which order I should report them. Can you please help me? Texas Subscriber Answer: On your claim, you should first report code I11.0 (Hypertensive [...]
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