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Check Out this Example of Proper Non-Indexable Disease Coding

Published on Fri Jun 16, 2017

For this salivary gland disease, follow these Dx coding rules. It’s fair to say that ICD-10 could have done a better job in documenting codes for the vast array of differentdiseases that invade the salivary glands. There are, in fact, numerous instances in which the ICD-10 index will not lead you to any existing code for a particular disease. Let’s [...]
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