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Guidelines:

Use Sensitivity and Precision When Coding Abuse

Published on Thu Feb 02, 2023

Navigate contrary ICD-10-CM instructions with confidence. Encountering abuse can bring up a lot of feelings, but frustration with the ICD-10-CM guidelines doesn’t need to be part of the experience. Pocket these tips for navigating instructions that can be confusing. Nuts and bolts: ICD-10 Guideline IV.H tells you not to “code diagnoses documented as ‘probable,’ ‘suspected,’ ‘questionable,’ ‘rule out,’ ‘compatible with,’ [...]
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