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ICD-10 Spotlight:

Stay Cool With These ''Burn'' Coding Guidelines

Published on Tue Mar 08, 2016

Remember: The coding is incomplete without listing the external cause that caused the burn. You don’t have to singe yourself while coding for burns under ICD-10 because the logic remains more or less similar to how you approached the problem in ICD-9. The only addition is that ICD-10 has included specific scenarios to capture the cause for the burns and [...]
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