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Section for AICD Codes Changes in 2015, But Descriptors Remain Mostly the Same

Published on Mon Jun 16, 2014

V45.01 and V45.02 will become Z codes. Sometimes a patient whose case you’re coding has a pacemaker or automatic implantable cardiac defibrillator (AICD), but that’s not the reason the physician is treating the patient. You still need to include the device when listing diagnoses, but will look for codes in a different section when ICD-10 is implemented in October 2015. [...]
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