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ICD-10 Update:

J80 Choices Upgrade Your Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Dx

Published on Tue Apr 30, 2013

Hint: ARDS in the newborn should be reported with a different code as in ICD-9. When your pulmonologist assesses patients for dyspnea, one of the diagnosis that you might come across is acute pulmonary distress syndrome (ARDS) – so it becomes imperative that you know how to report this diagnosis using ICD-10 codes when they come into effect after Oct.1, [...]
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