tci Part B Insider - 2015 Issue 3

ICD-10: Straightforward Crosswalk Helps Pinpoint Actinic Keratosis Diagnoses

Under ICD-10, L57.0 will be your go-to code. When your clinician diagnoses actinic keratosis, you report the condition in much the same way as you did in ICD-9. You also have a simple crosswalk code to clinch the diagnosis in ICD-10. ICD-9: When your practitioner arrives at a diagnosis of actinic keratosis, you report 702.0 (Actinic keratosis). You cannot use 702.0 when the provider confirms the diagnosis as carcinoma in situ. This has to be reported from the ICD-9 code range 232.0-232.9 instead. Also, you cannot use 702.0 when your clinician diagnoses any...

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