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Not Rheumatic, Rheumatic, or Unspecified? Clip and Save This Valve Disorder Job Aid

Published on Fri Oct 14, 2016

Be sure you catch the mitral valve insufficiency twist. Coding for chronic heart valve diseases is a tricky business. Rheumatic fever is rare in the US these days, but in many cases, ICD-10 requires you to report a rheumatic valve disorder code when documentation doesn’t reveal the disorder’s cause. That rule is inconsistent, though, so you have to know when [...]
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