Home Health & Hospice Week
Check Out ICD-10 Updates, Including ICD-9 Duplications
You may not be familiar with the ICD-10 code set yet, but it continues to grow anyway. CMS recently posted the 2012 ICD-10 code update, which not only shows which codes were added, deleted, and revised this year, but also offers information on the new diagnosis coding system, which will be mandatory for providers Oct. 1, 2013. In addition, CMS has released a list of duplicate codes that show which ICD-10 descriptors are assigned to the exact same codes as an existing ICD-9 classification. For instance, the ICD-10 code for "Wilson's disease" is E83.01. But ICD-9 code E83.01 is currently an active diagnosis code representing a boat accident (which will eventually be coded using V90.89 under ICD-10). It is unclear whether CMS intends on replacing the ICD-10 codes that are repeated (with different meanings) under ICD-9 or whether it has simply pointed the duplicates out. Resources: For more on the 2012 ICD-10 changes, visit www.cms.gov/ICD10/11b14_2012_ICD10CM_and_GEMs.asp. More information on the ICD-10 coding system is in ICD-10 Coding Alert; call 1-877-912-1691 to subscribe.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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