tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2011 Issue 4

CD-10: 789.5 Expands to Ascites R18 and K70

Alcoholic ascites diversifies ICD-10.When you start using ICD-10 in 2013, the new code set won't always offer a simple one-to-one relationship to the old codes. You might have additional options that may require tweaking the way your surgeon documents a service and the way a coder reports it.Consider this: Under ICD-9, your go-to code for cancer-related ascites is 789.51 (Malignant ascites) and for ascites related to any other condition you turn to 789.59 (Other ascites).ICD-10 change: ICD-10 does things a little differently. True, there is a oneto-one corresponding code with the same definition for...

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