2012 ICD-9 code changes go into effect in a week's time. Like other practices, your general surgery practices will also have to gear up for the changes.
On October 1, 2011, you'll have to bid goodbye to ICD 9 2011 Codes and welcome new changes. Your general surgery practices will need to be well-versed with four new codes to report complications of gastric band or bariatric procedures from October 1. Of these, you'll find 539.xx and other just-in, invalid and revised codes that'll have a say on your practice.
Bariatric surgery or gastric band procedure complications are presently indexed to 997.4. This is a situation where we simply index the complication to a generic code; and there are no secondary codes to use.
In a week's time, this'll change – you will have to start reporting bariatric/gastric band complications with one of these codes: 539.01, 539.09, 539.81, 539.89.
Directing coders to new codes, ICD-9 adds an 'excludes' note to 997.4. This code does not distinguish digestive system complications from bariatric or gastric band surgeries from complications resulting from any other procedures or conditions.
Benefit: These just-in codes allow better data collection for complications of bariatric and gastric band procedures.
That apart, ICD-9 2012 will also expand 10 current codes to 40 new codes that you will have to use when your surgeon carries out a skin excision.
Skin site makes a distinction between the 10 prevalent codes (173.0-173.9) that'll become invalid. One can notice the same site distinctions in the new codes, however the latest ICD-9 codes 2012 adds a fifth digit to each four digit code to differentiate cancer type. Say for instance basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma.
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