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Clarification:

Compare Your ICD-10 Options for Stent Removal

Published on Fri Dec 18, 2015

Recently a reader contacted Urology Coding Alert and questioned the ICD-10 diagnosis we chose for the double J stent removal in the “You be the Coder” titled “Stent Removal Diagnosis” in the Vol. 17, No. 11 issue. The published answer: In the reader question, we instructed you to use an ICD-10 code from the T19 family, such as T19.1XXA (Foreign [...]
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