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ICD-10:

Get to the Bottom of Excludes1 Note Confusion With This Definitive Rule

Published on Mon Oct 12, 2020

New guidelines clarify previously murky area. Diagnosis coding can take years to master, and part of the reason for that is because the ICD-10-CM code book has so many nuances. Chief among them is the Excludes1 parenthetical note, which is typically among the last of these concepts to “click” for beginning coders. That’s partly because, up until recently, there were [...]
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