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Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

ICD-10-CM:

Keep Your Dx Coding Sharp, now More than Ever

Published on Mon Oct 30, 2017

Capturing and coding patients' comorbidities affects reimbursement now, and later. Until recently, diagnosis coding was good for one thing: it established and supported medical necessity. Linking a patient's diagnosis code and the corresponding CPT® code on claims ensured you got paid fairly for the procedures you performed. Now, diagnosis coding-and specifically, coding comorbidities-has become much more important thanks to the [...]
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