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Influenza: identified and unidentified viruses
Official text from the FY2027 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting. The wording is quoted exactly.
Guidelines I.C.10.c
“Code only confirmed cases of influenza due to certain identified influenza viruses (category J09), and due to other identified influenza virus (category J10).”
“then the appropriate influenza code from category J11, Influenza due to unidentified influenza virus, should be assigned.”
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