tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2011 Issue 7

ICD-10: 555 to K50: Get Specific About Complications With Sixth Digits

Surgeons will need to document more detail. When you start coding Crohn's disease with ICD-10 in Oct. 2013, you'll go from four codes to 28. That's because the new diagnosis code set provides far more specificity, requiring you to indicate if the surgeon finds complications, and if so, what those complications are. Check Out Chart for Language Change Even before you get to the fifth and sixth digits that add complication information, you'll need to get familiar with the shift in code number and code definitions from ICD-9 to ICD-10. You'll notice that ICD-9 lumps Crohn's under "regional enteritis"...

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