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ICD-10 Update:

Look Out For One-to-One Transition for Allergic Rhinitis in ICD-10

Published on Fri Aug 28, 2015

You can now report vasomotor rhinitis with a specific diagnosis code. When reporting a diagnosis of allergic rhinitis with ICD-10 codes, you will have to base your reporting on the allergen that is causing the rhinitis as you did in ICD-9. If a causative allergen has not been identified, you will have to use an unspecified code similar to the [...]
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