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Nail Down Root Operations in ICD-10-PCS

Published on Wed Mar 09, 2016

Key: Boil down what the physician performed to match root operation definitions. Now that four months have passed since ICD-10 implementation, it’s time for a little introspection. “The implementation of ICD-10 seems to have gone very smoothly,” claims Duane C. Abbey, PhD, president of Abbey and Abbey Consultants, Inc., in Ames, IA. “I have not encountered any situations where healthcare [...]
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