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ICD-10-CM 2024:

Learn How to Identify the New Foreign Body Codes

Published on Fri Aug 25, 2023

Just don’t sequence the W44.- codes first. Among the more than 500 code changes to the 2024 ICD-10-CM code set are 173 new codes to the External Causes of Morbidity section. Effective Oct. 1, 2023, the ICD-10-CM code set’s new W44.- (Foreign body entering into or through a natural orifice) codes will make it easy to specify the object that [...]
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