AHA Coding Clinic® for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS - 2021 Issue 4; Section X-New Technology

New Technology Group 1 Update

At the September 11-12, 2018 ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee Meeting CMS announced plans to begin analyzing the frequency of the New Technology Group 1 codes within Section X as it has been 3 years since the implementation of these codes. At the March 9-10, 2021 C&M Committee Meeting, CMS announced that based on review of the data and the clinical aspects of each procedure code, CMS proposed one of the options below: 1. Leave the code in Section X (e.g., procedure codes related to the administration of a specific medication) 2. Reassign the code...

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