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Choose Two Codes for Different Hearing Loss in Each Ear

Published on Fri Feb 12, 2016

Question: ICD-9 code 389.16 crosses over to H90.5 in ICD-10, but my physician says this is an inaccurate cross-over. The ICD-10 codes appear to overlook mixed [...]
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