tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 10

ICD-10: 938 to T18.9 Adds Encounter Detail

Foreign body coding gets specific. When your surgeon removes a foreign body from the digestive tract and doesn’t specify the site (such as stomach or colon), you have just one code choice in ICD-9.    But you’ll need to know more so that you can choose the correct code for this condition when ICD-10 becomes effective on Oct. 1, 2015.   Compare the Crosswalk   The correct ICD-9 code for a foreign body in an unspecified location in the digestive system is 938 (Foreign body in digestive system unspecified). ICD-9 adds these words to further describe...

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