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C64.1_ Chooses Sides for Renal Tumors

Published on Mon Jan 19, 2015

Learn ICD-9 189.x crosswalks. Just two codes describe kidney tumors and renal-pelvis tumors under ICD-9, but that won’t be enough when ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2015. If you can’t get more specific site information from the pathology report beginning in October, you might have trouble reporting an accurate diagnosis code. See what you need to know to [...]
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