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Urology:

Get Specific With the Reason for Urine Retention

Published on Thu Apr 07, 2016

Plus: Pay attention to your extra diagnosis choice. When selecting an ICD-10 diagnostic code for retention of urine, you still have several codes to choose from, just as you did for all those years with ICD-9. But providers and coders will both have to pay attention to some documentation details to ensure the correct code gets reported. In the past: [...]
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