tci Outpatient Facility Coding Alert - 2016 Issue 6

ICD-10: Start Digging Into the Thousands of Updates Planned for ICD-10-CM 2017

Some of your biggest shifts will be in orthopedics. Although your new edition of ICD-10 won’t be effective until Oct. 1, the Federal Register has already released the proposed new, revised, and deleted codes. The list includes a whopping 1,900 new diagnosis codes along with a plethora of revisions that will end the partial freeze the CDC has had in place since 2011. You’ll likely find yourself using many of these new and revised codes since outpatient facilities treat patients with such a wide range of conditions. Read on for a look at what’s coming...

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