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AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2016 Issue 4; ICD-10-CM NEW/REVISED CODES

Complications of Genitourinary Prosthetic Devices, Implants, and Grafts

Category T83, Complications of genitourinary prosthetic devices, implants, and grafts has been revised at the request of the American Urological Association (AUA). These changes are intended to capture current terminology as well as to better represent complications of certain urinary catheters and other devices that are not currently represented in ICD-10-CM. Revisions and the addition of new codes at subcategory T83.0, Mechanical complication of urinary catheter, were made to capture the correct diagnosis coding of all urinary catheters, not limited to the term “indwelling.”  Terminology used in the practice of urology specifically alludes to the...

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