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ICD-10 2021:

Don't Kid Yourself; You Need to Know these Juvenile Osteochondrosis Codes

Published on Wed Aug 05, 2020

Code sets get major upgrade in new Dx book. ICD-10 2021 will feature three major revisions to codes representing juvenile osteochondrosis (JO), and more than a dozen new codes to provide a more detailed picture of the patient’s injury via diagnosis code. Condition defined: During her presentation “Juvenile Osteochondroses,” Nathalie Gaulier, MD, sports medicine physician at Cook Children’s Medical Center, [...]
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