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Separate fact from fiction with ICD-10-CM external cause codes

 

Not surprisingly, coders will have many more options to report how a patient was injured in ICD-10-CM. Betty Hovey, CPC, CPC-H, CPB, CPMA, CPC-I, CPCD, and Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CCDS, explain how the codes differ from ICD-9-CM E codes, when to report them, and why coders should not be too worried about the transition.

 

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