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ICD-10 Update:

Define Your Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonia Diagnosis With J84.2

Published on Wed Nov 06, 2013

Good news: You no longer need separate diagnosis codes for known and idiopathic causes. When your pulmonologist diagnoses lymphoid interstitial pneumonia, you will be pleased to know that you can capture this with a very specific code in ICD-10 code sets and not resort to a more generalized code as you had to do when capturing this diagnosis with the [...]
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