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Familiarize Yourself With These New Hurricane External Cause Guidelines

Published on Mon Jan 14, 2019

Use these 2 examples to steer home the point. Following a tumultuous 2018 hurricane season, now is a better time than ever to detail an important addendum to the 2019 ICD-10-CM guidelines involving hurricane external cause of morbidity codes. Before 2019, the ICD-10-CM neglected to instruct coders on when and how to properly report hurricane-induced external cause of morbidity codes. [...]
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