HCPro, JustCoding Outpatient - 2017 Issue 19 (May)

Embrace DSM-5 and ICD-10-CM in drug use, abuse, and dependency

May 5th, 2017

As physicians and society debate the rising incidence and devastating effects of opioid dependency, neonatal abstinence syndrome, and the use and abuse of other mood-altering chemicals, James Kennedy, MD, CCS, CDIP, explains how providers must partner together to define, diagnose, document, and report drug-related events so that ICD-10-CM-dependent administrative data can accurately measure its epidemiology, responses to treatment, and consequences. 

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