DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2015 Issue 11 (November)

Never say never. Even for Excludes1 codes.

Open your ICD-10-CM manual to the guideline for Excludes1 codes, and make the following revision: “An Excludes1 note indicates that the code exclude should almost never be used at the same time as the code above the Excludes1 note.”

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