AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1995 Fourth Quarter

Diagnostic Coding and Reporting Guidelines for Outpatient Services (Hospital-Based and Physician Office)

Revised October 1, 1995 Introduction These revised coding guidelines for outpatient diagnoses have been approved for use by hospitals/physicians in coding and reporting hospital- based outpatient services and physician office visits. These guidelines replace the current guidelines published in Coding Clinic, First Quarter 1990. Information about the use of certain abbreviations, punctuation, symbols, and other conventions used in the ICD-9-CM Tabular List (code numbers and titles), can be found in the section at the beginning of the ICD-9-CM on "Conventions Used in the Tabular List." Information about the correct sequence to use in finding a code is described...

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