Pay-Per-View: Updated sepsis, pain management coding
Compliance Monitor, January 23, 2008
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ICD-9 guidelines
Although there are not any surprising changes to the new ICD-9-CM coding guidelines, they do contain significant guidance to assist in coding sepsis and the correct use of pain code category 338. The guidelines also introduce a new code for avian flu.
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