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Focus Appendicitis Dx Coding

Published on Tue Mar 17, 2020

Don’t miss pregnancy impact. When your surgeon treats a patient with appendicitis, you may find coding the case is easy on the procedure side but complicated on the diagnosis side. Look to ICD-10-CM guidelines and the following expert tips for a roadmap to reporting the correct diagnosis codes for your appendicitis cases. Without Surgery, Code Symptoms Sometimes your surgeon will [...]
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