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Focus Melanoma Diagnosis with Site, Behavior Documentation

Published on Tue Aug 16, 2016

Malignant and in situ are different. Most conditions report to a single code family in ICD-10-CM — but not melanoma. In fact, you’ll need to get familiar with multiple code families if you want to get your melanoma diagnosis right. Turn Here for Primary Malignant Melanoma You’ll probably find the correct code for the bulk of your melanoma cases by [...]
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