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Sometimes our patients are very sick, very injured, or undergo multiple procedures during their stay. So how do you pick your principal procedure code in ICD-10-PCS? The ICD-10-PCS guidelines offer...
The ICD-10-PCS codes for 2014 are now available on the CMS website. CMS also posted the 2014 ICD-10-PCS guidelines and an ICD-10-PCS reference manual. You will find four new codes under new...
When coders begin using ICD-10-PCS the second and fourth character definitions seem simple enough: Second character-Body system Fourth character-Body part However, when coders start assigning codes,...
