tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2002 Issue 10

ICD-9 Update:

Prepare Now for Revisions in the New Year Although the New Year is still months away, some payers will begin to implement revised ICD-9 guidelines for 2003 as early as Oct. 1, 2002. Proposed revisions to ICD-9, initially announced in the May 9, 2002, Federal Register (Vol. 67, No. 90, pp. 31627-31631), include nearly 150 new diagnosis codes, as well as 19 code deletions. All payers must accommodate the changes on or before Jan. 1, 2003. Many new codes reflect a trend toward greater diagnosis specificity. For example, five codes (459.30, 459.31, 459.32, 459.33 and...

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