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Heighten How You Report Heart Failure, Hypertension, and Myocardial Infarctions After Oct. 1

Published on Wed Aug 09, 2017

Breaking: Don't miss new myocardial infarction code I21.9. CMS recently released its list of over 300 new ICD-10 codes. As you dig into the codes, you'll notice new options for heart failure, hypertension, and myocardial infarction. Bottom line: The new ICD-10 codes won't go into effect until Oct. 1, 2017, so now is the perfect time to see how these [...]
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