How Click-A-Dex will help you with ICD-10

Find-A-Codes Click-A-Dex is a powerful enhanced search index. Using this tool offers a valuable advantage designed for searching new terminology and codes in ICD-10 Codes.

The modernized ICD-10 has new terminology and some of the key words you have become accustomed to in ICD-9 may have changed. For example “Appendectomy” is more specific using “Appendix Excision or Resection. Requiring the need to search for the specific body part as well as the general type of procedure just to get started.

With Click-A-Dex we only need the first several letters of our search. The index will give us a selection based on our entry. Let’s find the code in ICD-10 for a “Resection of Appendix with a Percutaneous Endoscopic approach”. The following information is all a part of the desired code;

Medical and Surgical section (0)

Body system Gastrointestinal (D)

Root operation Resection (T)

Body part Appendix (J)

Percutaneous Endoscopic approach (4)

No Device (Z)

No Qualifier (Z)

Using Click-A-Dex it is easy to find the correct code. We will simply search for “appen” as we may be unsure if it under “Appendix” or “Appendectomy”.

Laparoscopic appendectomy: 0DTJ4ZZ

Click on the to further select your code, in addition, we know it was a “Resection”.

Check it out, Click-A-Dex has now taken us to the correct Section, Body System, Root Operation and Body Part, now all you need is select the approach used in the procedure.

Once the desired term is located, click on the code to view the code information page as well as additional pertinent coding information to confidently report the following code.

Laparoscopic appendectomy: 0DTJ4ZZ

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