tci General Surgery Coding Alert - 2015 Issue 1

Reader Question: Add to Your ICD-10 Know-How

Question: I’ve heard that ICD-10 doesn’t have an equivalent to V codes and E codes, so how can we report external causes and other factors influencing health status under the new code set? SuperCoder Subscriber Answer: You’ve heard right — ICD-10 doesn’t break out the information represented by ICD-9 V and E codes. Instead, ICD-10 incorporates the information into the main classification. That’s part of the reason that ICD-10 codes are alpha-numeric and contain up to seven characters, compared to ICD-9 codes that contain up to five characters. The fact that ICD-10 incorporates information...

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