ICD 10 Coding Alert

Ob-Gyn:

6 Categories Simplify Your Numerous ICD-10 Gynecology Changes

Get ready to specify ovarian cyst laterality in October. Remember how you had thought you had lost a code for when a laparoscopic surgery becomes an open one? ICD-10 will resolve this as of October 1, when you’ll add Z53.31 (Laparoscopic surgical procedure converted to open procedure) to your coding possibilities — and that’s not all. As of October 1, [...]
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