“Clearly the ICD-10 coding is much more accurate in hematological malignancies, such as leukemia and lymphoma and myelodysplastic syndrome, where we used to have this overarching diagnosis, and now they’ve actually split them out into really what the diseases are,” Grubbs says. “On the othe...
between "ICD-10- only policies" and ICD-O-2 (International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 2nd edition); (2) Responses to the newly conceptualized tumors, such as gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST); (3) Responses to the so-called "four D-code diseases" (myelodysplastic syndrome)...
2007 ICD9CM Updates Presented by Jo Ann Steigerwald Medical Business Specialists and Charlotte Price, RHIA, CCSP, CPC Th,人人文库,renrendoc.com