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Can anyone provide an example of where a colon is used in a code listing in the tabular section of ICD-10-CM? I have been searching the book for over an hour and cannot find one. I need it for a presentation and kinda feel like a moron that I cannot find one after this long....The only place I have found then is in the statement "use additional code to identify..."

Thanks!
 
You are over thinking this. Look at you excludes notes and your includes notes. They all have colons and then a list of codes. The colon indicates that the term excludes 1, or excludes 2, or includes are incomplete phrases and need the words listed after the colon to be complete.
 
Thanks Debra, I have the 2015 AAPC ICD-10 complete draft code set, and none of the includes or excludes notes have colons!
 
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