Katherine Restrepo, John Locke Foundation health and human services policy analyst, discusses complications linked to the new ICD-10 health codes. Restrepo offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 649).
JLF’s Katherine Restrepo assesses challenges linked to ICD-10
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