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Get to Know the New Obesity-Designated-by-Class Codes

Published on Fri Dec 06, 2024

Go beyond documentation to help end the stigmatization of your obese patients. On Oct. 1, 2024, ICD-10-CM introduced a new option to code obesity by class. But why were these codes needed? For example, prior to the release of the new codes, you could capture severe, or morbid, obesity with E66.01 (Morbid (severe) obesity due to excess calories). On the [...]
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