General Surgery Coding Alert

ICD-10:

174.8 Yields More Specific Crosswalks

Change how you report ectopic sites. Other specified sites” won’t be a choice for reporting breast cancer lesions once ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2015.   In fact, you can expect 174.8 (Malignant neoplasm of other specified sites of female breast) to crosswalk to the following three codes under ICD-10: C50.819 — Malignant neoplasm of overlapping sites of [...]
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