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ICD-10-CM Guidelines:

Spot the Difference Between Aftercare and Follow-Up Codes

Published on Tue Mar 22, 2022

These scenarios and Excludes1 instructions will point you in the right direction. Correctly documenting aftercare is an important and integral component of coding. An understanding of what constitutes aftercare, as opposed to follow-up, monitoring, or surveillance, is critical to accurate reporting. Making sure you understand all the applicable ICD-10-CM guidelines as they apply to oncology is key. Here’s what you [...]
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