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Correction:

Double Check New Gastric Band, Respiratory Failure ICD-9 Codes

Published on Thu Jan 06, 2011

New 539 family offers more choices.

Several surgical additions to diagnoses in ICD-9 2012 could come in handy for your anesthesia coding. A few codes were incorrectly listed in Anesthesia Coding Alert Vol. 13, No. 9. The corrected code families of interest include:

Infection or complications due to gastric band or bariatric procedures (539.01-539.89)
Acute or chronic respiration failure, in normal circumstances or following trauma and surgery (518.51, 518.52, 518.53).

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