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tci Part B Insider - 2016 Issue 21
ICD-10: Prepare For These 6 Ob-Gyn ICD-10 Changes Effective Oct. 1
October revisions will keep the denials at a minimum.
Remember how you had thought you had lost a code for when a laparoscopic surgery becomes an open one? ICD-10 will resolve this as of October 1, when you’ll add Z53.31 (Laparoscopic surgical procedure converted to open procedure) to your coding possibilities — and that’s not all.
As of October 1, you’ll have a total of 1,900 new diagnosis codes, 313 deleted codes, and 351 revised ICD-10-CM codes to learn — which means your ICD-10 gynecology coding just got more complicated. We’ve broken down...
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