General Surgery Coding Alert
Update Laryngeal Cancer Coding This Fall
Not much changes but the code number once you begin to report malignant larynx cancer with ICD-10 instead of ICD-9. You should be ready to make the change on October 1 of this year when the new code set goes into effect.
Match-up: Here are the ICD-9 choices that you currently have for malignant larynx cancer:
Once ICD-10 goes into effect, you should switch to these codes that closely parallel the ICD-9 structure:
Notice: The one difference between the code sets is that for the fourth digit, “8,” ICD-9 identifies “other” sites, while ICD-10 identifies “overlapping” sites of larynx.
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