Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

ICD-10-CM:

Are You Following This Excludes1 Note Definitive Rule? Find Out

Ask your MD if you don’t know if a relation between two diagnoses exist. Diagnosis coding can take years to master, and part of the reason for that is because the ICD-10-CM code book has so many nuances. Chief among them is the Excludes1 parenthetical note, which is typically among the last of these concepts to “click” for beginning coders. [...]
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