tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 8

Diverticulitis Diagnosis: Add Perforation and Abscess Details for ICD-10

Prepare your surgeons to add op-note detail. Whether the patient’s colon diverticulitis involves bleeding may be the only detail your general surgeons need to currently report in the op note, but that won’t be true when ICD-10 goes into effect on October 1. Here’s why: ICD-9 has just two codes for colon diverticulitis, as follows: 562.11 — Diverticulitis of colon (without mention of hemorrhage) 562.13 — ... with hemorrhage But ICD-10 provides at least the following four choices for the same condition: K57.20 — Diverticulitis of large intestine with perforation and abscess without bleeding...

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