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Code What You Know Today — Not What the Results May Tell You Tomorrow

Published on Tue Sep 29, 2026

Don’t let anticipation cloud your coding. In the outpatient setting, ICD-10-CM requires you to code to the highest degree of certainty known for that encounter. A biopsy — or any diagnostic test — is often performed precisely because no one knows the answer yet. Think about that for a moment: If the provider already knew the answer, they probably wouldn’t [...]
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