ICD-10-CM:
Are You Following This Excludes1 Note Definitive Rule? Find Out
Published on Tue Oct 27, 2020
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. [...]