Pulmonology Coding Alert

ICD-10-CM:

Use the ‘With’ Guideline to Correctly Report Related Conditions

Hint: ‘With’ isn’t listed alphabetically in the index. The ICD-10-CM code set is full of conditions that are related to other conditions. To account for this, guideline I.A.15 in the ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines provides instructions on how to report multiple conditions with one another. Here are some ways you can familiarize yourself with the “with” guideline, along with some helpful [...]
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