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Putting the specific into unspecified

The world didn’t end on October 1, 2015. After years of postponement, the proverbial “deal with the devil” made between CMS and the AMA to push ahead with ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation was a year’s grace period during which physician practices could continue using unspecified codes without worrying about Medicare denials or auditor reviews.

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