ICD-9-CM Changes for Neoplasms & Glaucoma

With less than a month to go for ICD-9-CM 2012 codes to go into effect, now is the time to brush up on the latest coding options. This time, the spotlight's on expanded lip neoplasm and glaucoma options in addition to new codes for acute respiratory failure and other complications that result after surgery.

Now you will be able to pinpoint some stages more specifically.

While Neoplasm codes 173.0-173.9 will be axed and replaced by just-in fifth-digit choices - 173.00-173.99, Glaucoma codes expand to the fifth-digit level in order to differentiate the different stages. The just-in codes will be 365.70-365.74.

Since there will be much more spot on diagnosis choices when ICD-10 goes into effect in a couple of years time, these fifth digit expansions to codes will help coders and physicians start thinking in terms of more detailed diagnoses.

ICD 9 procedure codes for Gastric Band 

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Since anesthesiologists can find themselves absorbed in cases covering all surgical areas, you need to get acquainted with diagnosis changes for surgical procedures.

Get acquainted with just-in personal, family history choices

There are five new V codes that'll help your physician better indicate conditions a patient might have as part of her personal or family medical history. The just-in choices are:

Personal history of gestational diabetes - V12.21

Personal history of other endocrine, metabolic, and immunity disorders - V12.29

Personal history of pulmonary embolism - V12.55

Personal history of anaphylaxis - V13.81

Personal history of other specified diseases - V13.81

And as far as the revisions are concerned, when you go through the list of codes that have been revised, you'll find many migraine diagnosis listed. Although the descriptors are the same, the punctuation changes a little. Changed descriptors add a comma after the 'so stated' phrase in the fifth-digit '1' subclassification descriptor for each type of migraine mentioned.