tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2010 Issue 5

ICD-9 2011: Rev Up Your BMI 'V' Codes to Validate Bariatric Surgery

Show medical necessity with new 'supplemental factors' codes.Your general surgery practice will have some new tools to explain the reason for a procedure when the latest ICD-9 codes become effective Oct. 1.CMS recently published the full list of over 130 new diagnosis codes in the Federal Register, and our experts will guide you through the list to find the codes that impact your practice.Surprise: More than a third of the new codes can be found in the "V" code section. That's where you'll find the new codes that impact general surgeons the most.Expanded BMI Helps...

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