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Learn When to Use New Long Term Drug Therapy Codes
Published on Thu Jul 21, 2022
Hint: Some will affect medical decision making (MDM). There are almost 1,500 ICD-10-CM changes scheduled to take effect on Oct. 1, 2022, and gastroenterology coders will soon have a handful number of new Z79 (Long term (current) drug therapy) codes from Chapter 21: Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services (Z00-Z99) to report. Here are a few that [...]