Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
Add Tobacco Use Codes with HTN in ICD-10
Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014 
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When coding for hypertension in ICD-10, no matter which category you select, you are instructed to list an additional code when reporting hypertensive disease category codes I10 to I15.- to indicate patients for whom the following is true:
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