ICD-10 Updates:
Update Your Understanding of Newborn Apnea and Personal History Codes
Published on Mon Jul 11, 2022
And find out which familiar codes now require an additional character. Of the almost 1,500 proposed coding changes to ICD-10-CM, more than 1,100 are new diagnosis codes for 2023. Luckily, pediatric coders won’t have to digest quite that many, but there are a handful of newborn and perinatal codes to watch out for when everything goes into effect on Oct. [...]