HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2017 Issue 26 (June)

Q&A: Clarification for ‘code first’ and ‘in diseases classified elsewhere’

June 27th, 2017

Q: I can't distinguish between code first and in diseases classified elsewhere.” Both are used with manifestations and both can't be sequenced as principal diagnosis and both need etiology codes, so what is the difference?

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