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Know These New Codes to Document Exploitation, Abuse

Published on Fri Jul 20, 2018

Cyberbullying makes its first appearance in ICD-10. With just 320 additions, 172 revised codes, and three deleted codes, the changes to the 2019 ICD-10 are not as extensive as they have been in previous years. Even so, primary care coders need to take note: the T74 (Adult and child abuse, neglect and other maltreatment, confirmed) and T76 (… suspected) code [...]
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