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ICD-10 2023:

Check Out the Expansion of This Epiphysis Code Group

Published on Fri Aug 05, 2022

The M93.0- code set is about to get bigger. When ICD-10 2023 takes effect on Oct. 1, 2023, coders will have a lot more diagnoses to choose from when a patient reports with a slipped upper femoral epiphysis. Why? The World Health Organization (WHO) set its sights on expanding the M93.0- (Slipped upper femoral epiphysis (nontraumatic)) code family, giving several [...]
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