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Ask Cardiologist to Specify Insufficiency, Prolapse, or Stenosis for Your Mitral ICD-10 Code

Published on Wed Sep 10, 2014

Not sure whether to use the ‘insufficiency’ or ‘other’ code for incompetence NOS? Here’s the answer. ICD-10 is ousting the simplicity of a single code for nonrheumatic mitral valve disorders. Check out the five new options you’ll need to know. ICD-9-CM Code 424.0, Mitral valve disorders ICD-10-CM Codes I34.0, Nonrheumatic mitral (valve) insufficiency I34.1, Nonrheumatic mitral (valve) prolapse I34.2, Nonrheumatic mitral (valve) stenosis [...]
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