ICD 10 Coding Alert

ICD-10 Update:

Know These New Ways to Document Abuse, Exploitation

Cyberbullying finally gets its own code. Last month, we highlighted many of the additions, deletions, and changes to the 2019 ICD-10 that will affect diagnosis coding beginning on Oct. 1 of this year. This month, we highlight one final group of revisions to the Other and Unspecified Effects of External Cause codes (T66-T78). These revisions are significant because they finally [...]
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