As discussed above, unspecified codes are used when there isn’t much information available about the patient’s condition to specifically code it at a particular point in time. “Other specified” on the other hand are Codes for which there is no exact code description for the condition described in the documentation.
National Association of Rural Health Clinics (NARHC) defines them as: “Coding that does not fully define important parameters of the patient condition, that could otherwise be defined by information available to the observer (clinician) and the coder”.
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