tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2007 Issue 11

New Lymphoma Codes Top 2008 ICD-9 Changes

You-ll continue to rely on 202.8x for unspecified conditions Upcoming changes for the 2008 ICD-9 manual are now available, and there's one new group of codes you may need when your surgeon performs fine needle aspiration, or excisional, incisional or needle biopsy, for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. There are more than 30 subtypes of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but all types are now classified to a single nonspecific code (202.8x). ICD-9 2008 will add over 50 codes to allow physicians to more exactly diagnose the conditions. You will find nine of these codes (describing peripheral T cell lymphoma) in...

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