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CMS Doles Out the Final ICD-10-CM Update

Published on Thu Jul 21, 2016

Major revisions to postprocedural hemorrhage, mediastinitis, and more. CMS finally released the definitive codeset update for the new 2017 ICD-10-CM codes that will go into effect Oct. 1. “New codes always require adjustment of reporting practices since people have to ‘break the habit’ of reporting the circumstances in the manner that they did prior to the new codes,” says Carol [...]
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