tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2014 Issue 5

ICD-10: Expand 682.0 Under New Diagnosis Code Set

Pinpoint more details to choose the right code. When your general surgery practice switches to ICD-10, your surgeon will need to document with lots more diagnostic detail when performing procedures such as incision and drainage of an abscess.  That’s because ICD-10 provides far more detail for these conditions than ICD-9. Study Face Example For instance, if your surgeon drains an abscess from a patient’s face, you currently have just one ICD-9 code to describe the condition: 682.0 (Cellulitis and abscess of face). All that changes under ICD-10. Instead of one code as in ICD-9, you&rsquo...

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