ICD-10:
Start Thinking 'Right' or 'Left' for Future Impacted Cerumen Coding
Published on Mon Nov 25, 2013
The H61.2- family will have all your code choices. Impacted cerumen can be a fairly common diagnosis for an otolaryngologist to report. Because of this, be sure your providers start thinking now about important details they’ll need to include in their documentation once ICD-10 becomes effective in October 2014. Prepare for Right/Left Specifications ICD-9 currently provides a single diagnosis code [...]