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Pathology: Trichomoniasis Boasts Direct Crosswalk
Published on Mon Jan 27, 2014
Organism and infection site focus codes. Coding urogenital Trichomonas infections won’t change much when your lab converts from ICD-9 to ICD-10. In fact, the code definitions will remain virtually identical — only the code numbers will change to accommodate the new code set beginning Oct. 1, 2014. Identify the codes Five ICD-9 codes represent urogenital trichomoniasis, as follows: 131.00 — [...]