Pathology/Lab Coding Alert

ICD-10:

Follow the BPH Disappearing Act

You won’t find the term in the new diagnosis code set. If you can’t find the code descriptor “benign prostatic hyperplasia” (BPH) in ICD-10, does that mean you won’t have a way to report the condition once the new code set goes into effect on Oct. 1, 2015? No: You may not see the term “BPH” as an ICD-10 code [...]
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