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Alert Your Cardiologists to Increase the Pulmonary Valve Disorder Details for ICD-10

Published on Mon Aug 11, 2014

Specific documentation of stenosis and insufficiency will simplify finding the proper code. When you start using ICD-10 codes in place of ICD-9, your nonrheumatic pulmonary valve disorder code choices will multiply by five. But a little prep work will make choosing among the more specific codes easy to do. ICD-9-CM Code 424.3, Pulmonary valve disorders ICD-10-CM Code I37.0, Nonrheumatic pulmonary [...]
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