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Hasten Your COVID-19 Dx Coding Know-How

Published on Wed Apr 15, 2020

Distinguish suspected versus positive cases. Because your surgeons may encounter and treat patients with COVID-19 symptoms or definitive diagnosis, you can’t afford to miss the recently issued diagnosis codes and extensive guidelines that will impact how you report claims. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) issued an unprecedented off-cycle addendum to the ICD-10-CM [...]
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