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Handle Your Ear Diagnoses With Care by Pinpointing Anatomic Site
Published on Sat Oct 09, 2010
Here's how to differentiate your pinna from your cochlea. Doctors who treat ear conditions don't only deal with otitis media, and it is often up to the coder to link the correct diagnoses to the ear treatment codes. Use the anatomic drawing below to locate the site described, and match that to the sampling of applicable ICD-9 codes in the chart at the bottom of this page.
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