ICD-10:
Check Out This Colon Polyp Coding Update
Published on Tue May 05, 2015
Document site to choose the proper code.
You’ve read about ICD-10 coding for benign colon polyps in these pages before (Pathology/Lab Coding Alert Vol. 15, No. 11, “Answer ‘Where?’ for Adenomatous Colon Polyps”), but what about cancerous polyps? Here’s a brief primer for how to use ICD-10 to report polyps of malignant or uncertain behavior when you find them [...]
