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Ramp Up on Control and Creation Root Operation Changes for ICD-10-PCS 2017

Published on Wed Sep 14, 2016

Your cardiac codes will be vastly affected by “Creation.” The countdown to ICD-10-PCS 2017 is on, bringing a grand total of 75,789 codes. While you’re checking out the 3,827 new codes in the code set, be sure to take note of some revisions and additions to root operation definitions, which are associated with a code’s third character. Let’s take a [...]
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