TrustHCS Blog Guidance for Coding Tobacco Use/Abuse/Dependence
More coding tips are being provided by the TrustHCS coding experts. In this blog entry we will review coding tobacco use, abuse, and dependence. Follow the alphabetic index in the ICD-10-CM code book for appropriate code assignment using the main term "Tobacco" Tobacco, use code to Z72.0 Dependence, tobacco directs the coder to - see [...]
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