What Would You Do?
Published on Tue Apr 22, 2014
Get a Grip on NEC and NOS Difference Question: was looking at the ICD-10-CM manual, and I noticed NEC and NOS. I know they stand for Not Elsewhere Classifiable (NEC) and Not Otherwise Specified (NOS), but will I, as a gastroenterology coder, need to know how to use them in ICD-10-CM? California Subscriber Answer: Like ICD-9, the NEC (Not Elsewhere Classifiable) abbreviation [...]