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Look Sharp and Listen Up: ICD-10 Brings These Changes to Your Eyes and Ears Disease Diagnoses

Exact anatomical location and laterality are the buzzwords for dealing with eye and ear presentations. When it comes to a need for greater specificity, the eyes and ears have it in ICD-10. Read on for instruction on how this works in your ED reporting. In ICD-10, eye codes have been expanded to increase anatomic specificity and add the concept of [...]
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