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ICD-10:

Prepare to Track Number of Visits for Treatment of FBR in Nose or Ear

Published on Tue Jun 17, 2014

ICD-10 will help you report the service more accurately.   When your otolaryngologist removes a foreign body from a patient’s nose or ear, you currently have a single diagnosis code for each situation. That will change after ICD-10’s implementation in 2015, when you’ll have multiple base codes for each anatomic site, plus three options for the seventh character of each [...]
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