tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2013 Issue 9

ICD-10: C17 Mirrors 152 for Malignant Small Bowel

‘Other’ becomes ‘overlapping’. Although many diagnoses will become far more specific once ICD-10 goes into effect, you won’t have to worry about major changes for reporting malignant neoplasm of small intestine resections that your surgeon performs. That’s because you’ll find a nearly perfect one-to-one crosswalk from ICD-9 to ICD-10 for this condition. Read on to make sure you’re ready to pick the right ICD-10 code for malignant enterectomy specimens beginning Oct. 1, 2014. Learn the Codes Currently, you should report malignant neoplasm of the small intestine using one of the following ICD-9 codes:...

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