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Follow These Handy Tips to Perfect Your Myocardial Infarction Reporting

Published on Thu Oct 28, 2021

Remember: If type 1 NSTEMI evolves to STEMI, report the appropriate STEMI code. When you look in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, you will see multiple instructions for reporting different types of cardiology diagnoses. Myocardial infarctions (MIs), in particular, can be a challenge. You must know details such as if the patient had a ST elevation myocardial [...]
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