Question: A patient had end-to-end urethroplasty with a buccal mucosal urethroplasty including graft harvest because of an anterior urethral stricture. He returned two weeks later for what the urologist documented as a “suture ligation of bleeding vessel and drainage of [...]
Know when to use the ICD-10-CM index as a reference. When it comes to coding surgical procedures and operations, coders have to know exactly how to handle complications from the procedure, if and when they arise. However, how is a [...]
Know when to use the ICD-10-CM index as a reference. When it comes to coding surgical procedures and operations, coders have to know exactly how to handle complications from the procedure if and when they arise. However, how is a [...]
Some of your biggest shifts will be in orthopedics. Although your new edition of ICD-10 won’t be effective until Oct. 1, the Federal Register has already released the proposed new, revised, and deleted codes. The list includes a whopping 1,900 [...]
Proposed list would introduce nearly 2,000 new codes, effective Oct. 1. Six months after ICD-10 became official, coders in most specialties are preparing for the possibility of adding nearly 2,000 new diagnosis codes to the list. On April 27, the [...]
Proposed list would introduce nearly 2,000 new codes, effective Oct. 1. Six months after ICD-10 became official, coders in most specialties are preparing for the possibility of adding nearly 2,000 new diagnosis codes to the list. On April 27, the [...]
998.11 expands to several codes, but you may only need four. When your urologist notes in his documentation that he performed a procedure, such as a circumcision revision, because the patient had bleeding (hemorrhage) problems, you typically report ICD-9 998.11 [...]
