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Check Out New Anaphylactic Reaction Diagnosis Codes

Published on Wed Jul 06, 2011

Many new codes abound in final update to proposed ICD-9-CM code set.If you've felt that your anaphylactic reaction diagnoses could use a bit more specificity, ICD-9 will deliver this October if the proposed list of new, deleted, and revised diagnosis codes becomes final.The list of ICD-9 changes was recently posted to the CMS Web site, and the proposal constitutes the last full set of changes that the agency will make to ICD-9 codes. After the new codes take effect on Oct. 1, CMS will only add new ICD- 9 codes on an emergency basis as it prepares to switch over the diagnosis coding system to ICD-10, effective Oct. 1, 2013.Note These Anaphylactic Reaction Code ChangesPediatric practices typically can't go a week without seeing a patient who suffers from allergic reactions to various substances, and when you reach for an anaphylactic reaction diagnosis code, you may have come up short in [...]
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