ICD-10 Coding:
Stay Current With the 2020 ICD-10 Addenda (Part 2)
Published on Tue Sep 15, 2020
Note new influenza instructions, extensive juvenile arthritis and osteochondrosis revisions. “This year’s ICD-10-CM updates seem very manageable,” says Barbara Hays, CPC, CPCO, CPMA, CRC, CPC-I, CEMC, CFPC, medical review supervisor, Special Investigations, at GEHA in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. “Coders and computer programming departments have to deal with just 490 additions, 58 deletions, and 47 revisions,” Hays notes. Even so, there [...]