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ICD-10:

Keep Your Eye on Revised Retinal Detachment Diagnosis Codes

Published on Mon Dec 15, 2014

Substitute these H33.--- codes for the 361.xx ICD-9 codes. As with many of the diagnosis codes you’re used to using, when the ICD-10 switchover happens, you’ll have to acquaint yourself with a code set that greatly expands upon the current ICD-9 codes for retinal detachment. As we’ve seen with many of the other code series, ICD-10 adds specificity as to [...]
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