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New clinical criteria definitions in 2017 Official Guidelines up the ante for coders

The new guideline for code assignment and clinical criteria in the 2017 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reportingdoes not mean clinical documentation improvement is going away; instead it just upped the ante for continued improvement.

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