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Pay Attention to Z33.1 Excludes1 Note

Published on Fri Dec 13, 2013

You’ll have just one code to indicate incidental pregnancy status. When a patient reports to your practice and is pregnant, but her complaint is documented as “incidental” to the pregnancy, you will report this code along with a code outside of the obstetric complications Chapter 15 of ICD-10-CM that signifies the complaint. ICD-9-CM Code: Right now, you should be reporting V22.2 [...]
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