Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

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Ensure External Morbidity Codes Are Secondary

Question: In the interests of painting the most complete diagnosis picture possible, our coding manager wants us to use external causes of morbidity ICD-10 codes from now on. I must admit I’m not too familiar with them. Can you give me a rundown on the external causes of morbidity coding? Michigan Subscriber Answer: The external causes of morbidity codes are [...]
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