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Seeking Esophageal Hemorrhage Code?

Published on Fri May 03, 2019

Question: In ICD-9, we had an option to report esophageal hemorrhage, but we can’t find a code for that in ICD-10. We assume we should use the unspecified gastritis with bleeding code (K29.71) but that doesn’t seem to fit the condition. Can you point us in the right direction? Codify Subscriber Answer: You are correct that ICD-10 doesn’t contain an [...]
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