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Rejoice for 611.72's One-to-One ICD-10 Correlation

Published on Tue Sep 23, 2014

If your ob-gyn documents a specific type of lump, code that instead. A patient may discover a lump within the breast tissue during her monthly self breast exam. Most lumps are not cancer but do represent changes within the breast tissue. ICD-9-CM Code: 611.72, Lump or mass in breast ICD-10-CM Code:  N63, Unspecified lump in breast This is a one-to-one [...]
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