AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 1990 First Quarter

Health Care Financing Administration's Coding and Reporting Requirements for Physician Billing

(As published in Section 4020.3 The Medicare Carrier's Manual) Use of ICD-9-CM.-For information about the use of certain abbreviations, punctuation, symbols, and other conventions used in the ICD-9-CM Tabular List (the volume with the code numbers and titles), see the sections on Conventions Used in the Tabular List and guidance in the use of ICD-9-CM at the beginning of Volume 1. Information about the correct sequence to use in finding a code is described in the Introduction to Volume 2, Diseases: Alphabetic Index. The most critical rule involves beginning the search for the correct code assignment through...

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