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Published on Thu Jul 23, 2015

There is good news on the diagnosis coding front. According to a recent CMS guidance document, Medicare will give coders a wide berth when it comes to diagnosis coding specificity next year. From Oct. 1, 2015 until Oct. 1, 2016, Medicare payers will not deny claims “based solely on the specificity of the ICD-10 diagnosis code as long as the [...]
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