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ICD-10 Update:

Turn To J93.1 For Spontaneous Pneumothorax Diagnoses Reporting

Published on Tue Jan 14, 2014

Hint: Identify underlying cause with additional code for secondary spontaneous pneumothorax. For your pulmonologist’s spontaneous pneumothorax diagnoses, base your code choice on whether the condition is primary (occurring due to no other cause) or secondary (if the condition has occurred due to some other respiratory condition). ICD-9: For  spontaneous pneumothorax diagnoses under ICD, you will begin your choice  with 512.8 [...]
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