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Prepare Physicians Now for More Detailed Transfusion Notes Under ICD-10-PCS

Published on Tue Mar 12, 2013

Heads up: Sketchy details will lead to almost 50 possible code choices. Physician notes describing a simple red blood cell transfusion might send you to a single diagnosis code under ICD-9, but that will change when you begin using ICD-10-PCS codes in October 2014. If you don’t have sufficient details describing the procedure, you’ll have dozens of potential ICD-10-PCS options. [...]
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