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Get Ready for These New 2020 ICD-10 Codes and Instructions (Part 1)

Published on Tue Aug 18, 2020

New external cause codes, headache and influenza instructions take center stage. The best thing about the 2021 ICD-10-CM addenda? “With 490 additions, 58 deletions, and 47 revisions, this year’s updates seem very manageable,” says Barbara Hays, CPC, CPCO, CPMA, CRC, CPC-I, CEMC, CFPC, medical review supervisor, Special Investigations, at GEHA in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. For primary care coders, however, there’s [...]
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