Basic ICD-10-CM/PCS Coding

ICD-10 codes were introduced in 1999, so all ICD-10 data were converted to ICD-9 format for consistency. Before 1999 patients with pneumonia on a background of COPD were assigned a primary diagnosis of pneumonia, with COPD as the secondary diagnosis. ................
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