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RODY.ELKHALIL

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A patient is admitted with right lower quadrant abdominal pain. The discharge diagnosis is
  listed as abdominal pain due to gastroenteritis or diverticulosis.
 A. K52.9, K57.90 C. R10.31, K52.9, K57.90
  B. K57.90, K52.9 D. K52.9, K57.90, R10.31

Question 2

When the word and appears in ICD-10-CM tabular list category titles and code descriptions, it is interpreted as meaning __________.
 a. and
  b. and/or
  c. or
  d. instead of



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

b





 

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