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Briefings on Coding Compliance Strategies (Single Article)

Learn meanings of STEMI, NSTEMI for proper code assignment
November 2005

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If you look closely at the 2006 ICD-9-CM codes, you’ll notice two new terms in the 410.xx series: ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and Non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) The diseases are not new. In fact, the abbreviations have been around for a long time. However, people do not uniformly understand the meaning of these abbreviations--which should be on your hospital’s accepted abbreviation list.

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