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General Surgery Coding Alert

ICD-10:

938 to T18.9 Adds Encounter Detail

Published on Mon Sep 15, 2014

Foreign body coding gets specific. When your surgeon removes a foreign body from the digestive tract and doesn’t specify the site (such as stomach or colon), you have just one code choice in ICD-9.    But you’ll need to know more so that you can choose the correct code for this condition when ICD-10 becomes effective on Oct. 1, 2015. [...]
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