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ICD-10:

Don't Get Mixed Up Over Mixed Hearing Loss Coding

Published on Tue Mar 18, 2014

ICD-10 won’t cover all options, so you could turn to ‘unspecified’ more often. Many of your current diagnosis codes will be expanded or more specific when you transition to ICD-10 in October, but a big exception for otolaryngology is with conductive hearing loss. ICD-9 options: In ICD-9, conductive hearing loss diagnoses are specific to the location within the ear under [...]
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