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Orient Yourself To These New ICD-10 Ovarian Cyst Codes

Published on Sat Jan 15, 2011

Your 620 codes become N83 ones in 2013.An ovarian cyst consists of a fluid filled closed sac or cavity in the ovary. The cyst is usually lined by epithelium. They can be normal, abnormal, non-neoplastic, or neoplastic tissues.Here's how you report these codes right now:620.0 -- Follicular cyst of ovary620.1 -- Corpus luteum cyst or hematoma620.2 -- Other and unspecified ovarian cyst.When your diagnosis coding system changes in 2013, you'll report ovarian cysts like this:N83.0 -- Follicular cyst of ovaryN83.1 -- Corpus luteum cystN83.20 -- Unspecified ovarian cystsN83.29 -- Other ovarian cystsICD-10-CM Change: For a follicular cyst of ovary and the corpus luteum cyst, you have a direct one-to-one match. However, your other and unspecified ovarian cyst code expands into two different options.Documentation: The provider may document many different terms to describe ovarian cyst. Underneath N83.0, you'll see terms "cyst of graafian follicle" and "hemorrhagic follicular cyst (of ovary)." Underneath N83.1, you'll see the term "hemorrhagic corpus [...]
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