ICD-10-CM seventh characters
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, June 1, 2015
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One of the new concepts in ICD-10-CM is the seventh character to denote the encounter type. In ICD-10-CM, coders will use the same basic diagnosis code throughout treatment, with only the seventh character changing.
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