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Base 7th character on treatment stage, not whether provider is new
Select the “active” treatment seventh character on ICD-10 injury codes based on whether the patient is undergoing active treatment for the injury — not whether the provider is seeing the patient for the first time, according to the latest update to ICD-10 coding rules.
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