Review newly implemented FY 2019 ICD-10-CM/PCS codes

October 16th, 2018

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Article Overview

This article summarizes selected FY 2019 updates to ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, and CC/MCC lists that were finalized in the IPPS rulemaking cycle. It is intended for coding professionals, CDI staff, and others who need a broad understanding of the scope of the changes affecting diagnosis coding, procedure coding, and severity-of-illness classifications.

Why This Topic Matters

Understanding annual code updates helps coding and CDI teams stay current with official implementation timing and the areas most affected by code expansion, deletion, and list changes. The article is relevant to professionals tracking FY 2019 coding updates and the related CC/MCC classification changes.

Article Sections

  1. Updates for ICD-10-CM

    This section reviews diagnosis-code changes included in the FY 2019 update, with emphasis on expanded code families and newly added specificity across multiple clinical categories.

  2. Updates for ICD-10-PCS

    This section outlines procedure-code updates for FY 2019, including changes to root operations, body parts, devices, approaches, and qualifiers across ICD-10-PCS tables.

  3. Updates to CCs/MCCs

    This section summarizes FY 2019 changes to complication and major complication classification lists and notes the types of diagnosis-code shifts that affected those lists.

  4. Summary

    This short closing section briefly reflects on the overall scope of the FY 2019 changes and their relationship to earlier proposed updates.

What You Will Learn

  • The general areas of ICD-10-CM change implemented for FY 2019
  • The general areas of ICD-10-PCS change implemented for FY 2019
  • How FY 2019 updates affected CC and MCC classification lists
  • Which broad clinical categories were impacted by the final rule updates
  • The relationship between proposed and finalized FY 2019 changes

Who Should Read This

  • Medical coders
  • CDI specialists
  • Revenue cycle professionals
  • Compliance staff
  • Clinical documentation improvement teams

Codes Discussed

  • ICD-10-CM: G71.0
  • ICD-10-CM: G71.00
  • ICD-10-CM: G71.01
  • ICD-10-CM: G71.02
  • ICD-10-CM: G71.09
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.20
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.21
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.30
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.31
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.32
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.33
  • ICD-10-CM: K61.31
  • ICD-10-CM: K61.5
  • ICD-10-CM: N35.016
  • ICD-10-CM: N99.116
  • ICD-10-CM: O30.131
  • ICD-10-CM: P74.49
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.00
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.01
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.02
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.03
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.04
  • ICD-10-CM: O86.09
  • ICD-10-CM: I63.81
  • ICD-10-CM: I63.89
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.2
  • ICD-10-CM: K35.3
  • ICD-10-CM: P35.4
  • ICD-10-CM: J80
  • ICD-10-CM: B20

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