Diagnosis Coding and Medical Necessity: Rules and Reimbursement
Introduction
The origins of using diagnosis codes in hospitals and other healthcare settings goes back to the early 1950s when the US Public Health Service and the Veterans Administration extended the concept of using the International Classification of Diseases to hospital indexing of m....
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