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Carol Buck's SBS 2009 Chapter 15 contains the following entry:
"When coding multiple diagnoses from one inpatient stay, certain combinations of fifth digits are used to classify that stay or visit. These fifth digit combinations are:
1 only, or with 2: NOT with 0,3, or 4
2 only, or with 1; NOT with 0,3, or 4
, etc...
What does this mean? She does not use examples and I don't have the knowledge to understand this yet. Can you help with examples, etc?
"When coding multiple diagnoses from one inpatient stay, certain combinations of fifth digits are used to classify that stay or visit. These fifth digit combinations are:
1 only, or with 2: NOT with 0,3, or 4
2 only, or with 1; NOT with 0,3, or 4
, etc...
What does this mean? She does not use examples and I don't have the knowledge to understand this yet. Can you help with examples, etc?