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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-9 - 2004 Issue 4; VOLUMES 1 AND 2 NEW/REVISED DIAGNOSIS CODES
Dental Code Expansions
Effective October 1, 2004, an extensive revision of the codes for “Diseases of Oral Cavity, Salivary Glands and Jaws†(520-529) has been carried out. Approximately 70 new dental codes have been created.
Diagnostic coding is not widely utilized in dentistry. Dentists do not routinely report or collect ICD-9-CM codes except in rare circumstances when a dental service is associated with a medically related condition requiring that a claim be submitted to the patient’s medical (rather than dental) insurance. The code changes to categories 520-529 were proposed by the University of Illinois...
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