tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 11

ICD-10: Expand Ulcerative Colitis Options Next Year

Location isn’t all you need to know. Make room for complications when reporting ulcerative colitis — that’s the future of reporting these conditions when ICD-10 goes into effect Oct. 1, 2015.    Learn the No-Complication Crosswalks   Without considering complications, you can see from the following list that the crosswalk from ICD-9 to ICD-10 is fairly straightforward for ulcerative colitis: 556.3, Ulcerative (chronic) proctosigmoiditis: K51.30, Ulcerative (chronic) rectosigmoiditis without complications 556.4, Pseudopolyposis of colon:  K51.40, Inflammatory polyps of colon without complications  556.5, Left-sided ulcerative (chronic) colitis: K51.50, Left sided...

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