tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue Q3

ICD-10-CM: See New Eye Fracture, Poison Codes Available Oct. 1

CMS offers new code options for pulmonary embolisms in 2020. Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the ICD-10-CM code list for 2020. The expansions, revisions, and updates include almost 400 changes and go into effect on Oct. 1.  Background: The good news about this year’s ICD-10-CM tabular addenda, which highlights changes to the 2020 code set, is that the changes are manageable. “The 2020 Tabular Addenda is only 36 pages, some of which are mostly blank,” notes Jan Blanchard, CPC, CPMA, pediatric solutions consultant at Vermont-based PCC. All told, there...

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