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ICD-10 Update:

Brace Yourself For More Than One Option For Reporting Acute Laryngitis in ICD-10

Published on Tue Mar 04, 2014

Don’t forget to take into account the number of conditions the code will represent. Although the descriptor to acute laryngitis code doesn’t mention obstruction as in ICD-9, you still have to delve into patient documentation to check for this as you have two codes in ICD-10 for acute laryngitis based on the presence or absence of obstruction. ICD-9: Diagnosis coding [...]
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