tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2011 Issue 6

ICD-10: ICD-9 'Retained Foreign Body' Additions Mirror ICD-10

ICD-9 2011 creates one-to-one ICD-10 correspondence.When your surgeon removes a foreign body, you'll need to document the item with a corresponding diagnosis code. Switching the primary code from ICD-9 to ICD-10 will be easy enough once the new code set is active in Oct. 2013.For instance: For a foreign body embedded in a granuloma of the skin and subcutaneous tissue, you should use the appropriate code from one of the two code sets:ICD-9 -- 709.4 (Foreign body granuloma of skin and subcutaneous tissue)ICD-10 -- L92.3 (Foreign body granuloma of the skin and subcutaneous tissue).Look...

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