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Understand Long-Term Current Drug Therapy Codes With This FAQ

Published on Fri May 26, 2023

Here’s the what, when, why, and how behind the Z79.6- codes. You may remember that, on Oct. 1, 2022, ICD-10-CM implemented a small but significant number of new Z79.- (Long term (current) drug therapy) codes. Now that you’ve lived with the codes for a while, you’ve likely begun formulating a number of questions about when and how to use them. [...]
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