tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 12

ICD-10: Consolidate Esophageal Cancer Codes

Look for ‘in situ’ direct crosswalk. Here’s a rarity for you — you’ll have fewer specific codes to choose from in ICD-10 than ICD-9 — for esophageal cancer, that is. Although many conditions will have a direct crosswalk or an expansion to numerous, more-specific codes when ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2014, the opposite will happen for malignant esophageal cancer. Curb Redundancies In fact, you’ll go from eight ICD-9 codes to five ICD-10 codes for malignant esophageal cancer, as follows: 150.0 — Malignant neoplasm of cervical esophagus 150.1 — Malignant neoplasm...

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