New Lymphoma Codes Top 2008 ICD-9 Changes
Published on Tue Oct 12, 2010
You-ll continue to rely on 202.8x for unspecified conditions Upcoming changes for the 2008 ICD-9 manual are now available, and there's one new group of codes you may need when your surgeon performs fine needle aspiration, or excisional, incisional or needle biopsy, for patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. There are more than 30 subtypes of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, but all types are now classified to a single nonspecific code (202.8x). ICD-9 2008 will add over 50 codes to allow physicians to more exactly diagnose the conditions. You will find nine of these codes (describing peripheral T cell lymphoma) in category 202 (Other malignant neoplasms of lymphoid and histiocytic tissue), and ICD-9 will classify the others (including marginal zone lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma and others) to category 200 (Lymphosarcoma and reticulosarcoma, which will include "and other specified malignant tumors of lymphatic tissue" for 2008). ICD-9 2008 will not include a new code for [...]
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