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I code Colonoscopies and my question is, Now with the new ICD-10 Excludes 1 note with codes D12- & K63.5, it says that they cannot be coded together. OK, so, what if the polyps are in different areas of the colon? For example, a hyperplastic polyp found in the sigmoid and an adenomatous polyp found in the cecum? Before we could code D12.0 for the cecum and K63.5 for the sigmoid, together on the same encounter. Can we still do that? Or do we just code the adenoma and leave out the hyperplastic polyp? Please help, not sure what to do. Thanks!