tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 19

DIAGNOSIS CODING: Tell CMS Where Decubitus Ulcers Hurt Starting October

You have until Oct. 1 to implement, but no grace period   Coders, take notice: At midnight on Sept. 30, you'll have to remove one set of ICD9 Codes and implement another. The Centers for Disease Control and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled their new ICD-9 diagnosis codes for 2005 last week, but you can't use them until Oct. 1. And because there's no more grace period for new codes, you'll have to start using the new codes right away. The vast majority of the new diagnosis codes are dental, since the dental societies requested an...

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