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ICD-10 Update:

Straightforward Transition Eases Your Acute Gastritis Reporting

Published on Fri Jul 19, 2013

Hint: Use same basis for arrival at final code as in ICD-9. When your gastroenterologist diagnoses acute gastritis, you’ll have to scour through patient documentation to check presence or absence of bleeding to arrive at the appropriate diagnosis code while reporting the condition with ICD-10 codes . ICD-9: You have two code choices to choose from depending on the presence [...]
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