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Remember ICD-10 Update When Reporting Resistant Hypertension

Published on Mon Dec 18, 2023

Question: My physician documented resistant hypertension. How should I report this? Oregon Subscriber Answer: It’s no surprise that this has you puzzled. One of the 2024 ICD-10 updates included a whole new category for hypertension: I1A- (Other hypertension). Under this category, you gained new code I1A.0 (Resistant hypertension), which is the appropriate code to use in your scenario. This code also includes [...]
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