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ICD-10 Update:

Watch for Simple One-to-One Transition for Sebaceous Cyst in ICD-10

Published on Wed Oct 07, 2015

Don’t report the same diagnosis code for pilar cysts and trichilemmal cysts. If your FP diagnoses a patient with sebaceous cyst, you report it in ICD-10 in the same manner in which you reported the condition in ICD-9. Even the list of inclusions and exclusions are similar to what you had in ICD-9. ICD-9: When your FP arrives at a [...]
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