DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2019 Issue 5 (May)

ICD-10-CM coding: Assign new SSI diagnosis codes based on depth of infection

Practices can expect surgical site infections (SSI) to occur in as many as 5% of U.S. surgical cases and are linked to an 11-fold increase in the risk of death when they do occur, according to a 2017 study. Now there are four new complication T codes to report for SSI infections.

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