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Disrupting the status quo: Hospital outpatient and ICD-10-PCS
“If ICD- 10-PCS is not necessary, why the debate? Why should we bother assigning codes when we don’t have to?”The ICD-10 system was designed to improve clinical communication via modernization and standardization of codes and descriptions. The ICD-10-PCS side provides additional specificity to describe the science behind the procedures, allowing for exact anatomical specification along with the diagnosis to provide data that is uniquely described and coded.
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