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ICD-10-CM:

Diagnosis: It's Not Just For Medical Necessity Anymore

Published on Tue Jan 16, 2018

Your Dx choice can have 'quality' pay implications. If you think of diagnosis coding as the "second fiddle," useful only to support the star of your show - procedure coding - think again. Although it's still true that linking a patient's diagnosis code and corresponding CPT® code on claims ensures you get paid fairly for the procedures you perform, it [...]
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