AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1988 Second Quarter

Diagnostic Coding Guidelines for Outpatient Services

Note: These coding guidelines were superseded by new guidelines published in Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter, 1995. Introduction The following coding guidelines for outpatient diagnoses have been approved for use by hospitals in coding and reporting hospital-based outpatient services. Since this is the first time the Editorial Advisory Board of Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM has addressed outpatient coding guidelines, it is expected that they will be expanded and/or modified in later issues as experience dictates. The terms encounter and visit are often used interchangeably in describing outpatient service contact and therefore appear together in these guidelines without distinguishing one from...

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