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Watch For One-to-One Crossover For Actinic Keratosis With L57.0

Hint: Use same diagnosis code for solar or senile keratosis. When your clinician diagnoses actinic keratosis, you report the condition in much the same way as you did in ICD-9. You also have a simple crosswalk code to clinch the diagnosis in ICD-10. ICD-9: When your FP arrives at a diagnosis of actinic keratosis, you report 702.0 (Actinic keratosis). You [...]
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