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Guidelines:

Get the Answers to Your External Cause Code Questions

Published on Tue Apr 18, 2023

Know when you should — and when you have to —report them. If you’re not sure if reporting a code from Chapter 20, External Causes of Morbidity (V00-Y99) is mandatory or optional, there’s good reason for your confusion. It stems from the ICD-10-CM guideline I.C.20 for reporting external cause, which tells you “there is no national requirement for mandatory ICD-10-CM [...]
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