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How does a therapist “pick” the right medical ICD-10 code in the SNF? Does it have to match the MDS? Can it be different? Therapy picks their treatment code without issue based on the patient presentation, but there is question about the medical diagnosis we have to enter on our plan of care. Facility position is that the therapy medical diagnosis must match whatever the MDS coordinator picks as the primary diagnosis. Sometimes the code MDS picks is not available in the rehab software. Help!
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What is the best method to look up and assign appropriate ICD-10-CM codes?
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