Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert

ICD-10-CM 2019:

Eye These Numerous Eye Lid, Metabolic Disorder, and Infection Following Procedure Additions

Don’t forget ‘x’ placeholder when applying seventh character to postprocedural infection diagnosis. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its list of the new ICD-10-CM 2019 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2018. Of these 320 new codes, 3 deleted codes and 172 revisions, you’ve got a smattering of oncology related diagnoses to add to coding [...]
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