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Diverticulitis Diagnosis:

Add Perforation and Abscess Details for ICD-10

Published on Fri Jul 24, 2015

Prepare your surgeons to add op-note detail. Whether the patient’s colon diverticulitis involves bleeding may be the only detail your general surgeons need to currently report in the op note, but that won’t be true when ICD-10 goes into effect on October 1. Here’s why: ICD-9 has just two codes for colon diverticulitis, as follows: 562.11 — Diverticulitis of colon [...]
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