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Hierarchy Scrambles Hepatitis C Codes

Published on Fri Jun 06, 2014

Acute/chronic distinction will lead in ICD-10. You’ll have the same number of codes and nearly identical definitions for reporting hepatitis C once ICD-10 goes into effect, but you need to learn one important organizational change to be able to find them. Make sure you read “Check Out This CMS Update” on page 54 to learn more about the new ICD-10 [...]
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