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Add or Remove Diagnosis Codes

You can add or remove the diagnosis codes in the ICD-CM section on the Estimate Patient Cost window. When you add or remove diagnosis codes for existing estimates and submit the cost estimation, a cost estimate with a new cost estimation ID is created.

  1. Open the Estimate Patient Cost window for a person, patient, encounter, or appointment.
  2. In the ICD-CM section, select open record .
    The Diagnosis Selection window opens.
  3. In ICD-CM Codes, do one of the following to search for the desired diagnosis code.
    • To search by code, select Code, and enter all or part of the code.
    • To search by description, select Description, and enter all or part of the description of the code.
    The flashlight icon indicates whether the diagnosis codes are searched by code or description.
    Diagnosis codes that match the entered search criteria are displayed.
  4. To add a code, select the code, and then select the right arrow to move the code to the Selected ICD-CM Codes list.
  5. To remove a code, select the code in the Selected ICD-CM Codes list, and then select the left arrow. Select OK to confirm removal of the code.
    Use the up and down arrows to sort the order of the diagnosis codes.
  6. Select OK.