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Manage This Medication Code Conundrum

Published on Wed Oct 14, 2020

Question: Which ICD-10 code should I use for medication management? Virginia Subscriber Answer: The short answer to your question is that there is currently no ICD-10-CM code for medication management. However, you can document this using two codes. You would begin with a code from the Z79.- (Long term (current) drug therapy) group, which allows you to document that your [...]
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