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tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2011 Issue 8

ICD-9 2012: 539: Quit Using 997.4 for Bariatric Surgery Complications

Update skin cancer dx and more with CMS's final proposed change to ICD-9-CM code set.General surgery practices will need to know four new codes to report complications of gastric band or bariatric procedures beginning Oct. 1 if the proposed ICD-9 codes become final. You'll find 539.xx (Complications of bariatric surgery and gastric band procedures) and other new, invalid, and revised codes that will impact your practice recently posted on the CMS Website.Capture Bariatric Infection, Other ComplicationsBariatric surgery or gastric band procedure complications are currently indexed to 997.4 (Digestive system complications). "This is a case where...

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