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Pancreatic Duct Neoplasm Has Direct Crosswalk

Published on Thu Mar 13, 2014

But watch out for overlapping sites. Moving from ICD-9 to ICD-10 shouldn’t be too complicated when you’re coding for malignant neoplasm of the pancreatic duct. That’s because you’ll have a direct crosswalk for the diagnosis when ICD-10 goes into effect Oct. 1 this year. One-to-One Has Exception You should currently assign ICD-9 code 157.3 (Malignant neoplasm of pancreatic duct) when [...]
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