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H47 Family Holds the ICD-10 Answers for Optic Chiasm, Visual Cortex Disorders

Published on Wed Dec 23, 2015

Check detailed codes for side specificity. If you’re in a neuro-ophthalmology practices, the last two months may have already made you familiar with the new diagnosis codes for disorders of optic chiasm and other visual pathway disorders, which took effect Oct. 1, 2015. As coders have seen, many of the ICD-10 codes specify which eye is affected – but since [...]
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