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ICD10 allows assigning diagnoses that are not on the list to more general "[[NOS]]" codes. Diagnoses for which we don't have a specific code should be coded as the next more general NOS code. This includes diagnoses that would be included in the standard ICD10 codes but that were not included in our subset (see [[Reasoning_around_moving_to_ICD10_and_our_subset_of_it#Why_we_didn.27t_include_all|here]] for more info).
ICD10 allows assigning diagnoses that are not on the list to more general "NOS" codes. Diagnoses for which we don't have a specific code should be coded as the next more general NOS code. This includes diagnoses that would be included in the standard ICD10 codes but that were not included in our subset (see [[Reasoning_around_moving_to_ICD10_and_our_subset_of_it#Why_we_didn.27t_include_all|here]] for more info).


== List of NOS diagnoses ==
== List of NOS diagnoses ==

Revision as of 15:18, 23 December 2017

ICD10 allows assigning diagnoses that are not on the list to more general "NOS" codes. Diagnoses for which we don't have a specific code should be coded as the next more general NOS code. This includes diagnoses that would be included in the standard ICD10 codes but that were not included in our subset (see here for more info).

List of NOS diagnoses

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Legacy

NOS codes should prevent any need for a List of Diagnoses we don't code in ICD10.