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Diagnosis Coding:
Using the ICD-10-CM

ICD-10-CM Features

Excludes Notes

ICD-10-CM has 2 kinds of Excludes Notes: Excludes1 and Excludes2. Each note has a different definition for use; but, they’re similar because they both show that codes excluded from each other are independent of each other.

Note: Excludes Notes may not appear within each area of the course where coding examples are used when they’re not related to the principle being shown.