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ICD-10-CM Guidelines:

Code This Here? Think Again Before You Do

Published on Mon Jul 26, 2021

Do you know the difference between Excludes notes? The release of the 2021 ICD-10-CM code revisions provides a timely opportunity to revisit your knowledge of diagnosis coding guidelines, especially the often misunderstood Excludes instructions. Excludes1 Is a Pure Exclusion Note ICD-10-CM guideline A.12.a. for Excludes1 uses capital letters and an exclamation point to inform you that an Excludes1 note is [...]
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