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Ob-Gyn Coding:

Get Answers to Your Ongoing Care Coding Questions

Published on Thu Apr 02, 2026

Find out how the Excludes1 notes come into play. When you’re coding encounters for ongoing care, terms like aftercare, follow-up, monitoring, and surveillance can look interchangeable in provider documentation. From an ICD-10-CM standpoint, however, they are not. Choosing the wrong category can lead to denials or compliance issues, especially in ob-gyn settings where postoperative and postpartum care is common. Here [...]
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