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429.1 Finds Its Equal in I51.5 for Myocardial Degeneration

Published on Mon Jun 10, 2013

You’ll be able to hold on to your old rule about hypertensive heart disease, too. ICD-9 and ICD-10 offer identical code definitions for myocardial degeneration, so your biggest challenge for the transition to code I51.5 may be distinguishing the letter “I” from the digit “1” in this alphanumeric code. The diagnosis: Myocardial degeneration involves a decline from the normal structure [...]
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