DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2017 Issue 7 (July)

ICD-10-CM update: Final 2018 diagnosis codes contain dozens of new, deleted codes in addition to proposed set

Starting Oct. 1, it will be a little easier to code a fracture of the middle phalanx of the fingers and toes. In the final version of the 2018 ICD-10-CM code set, the codes for those fractures have been corrected to state “middle phalanx” instead of “medial phalanx.”

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