Question: What does NEC mean? Need Assignment Help?
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- Used in both the index and tabular to enclose supplementary words that may be present or absent in the statement of a disease or procedure.
- This abbreviation in the tabular represents "other specified". When a specific code is not available for a condition the tabular includes an NEC entry under a code to identify the code as the "other spified" code.
- The abbreviation is the equivalent of unspecified.
- The abbreviation means that the doctor must be queried.