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Check Out New Cubital Tunnel Syndrome Options From ICD-10

Published on Thu Jun 09, 2011

Tip: Clarify MD's notation of CTS before coding.When using ICD-9-CM, you currently have a single diagnosis choice for cubital tunnel syndrome: 354.2. Your options will expand and your provider's documentation will need to be more detailed when ICD-10 goes into effect Oct. 1, 2013, however.ICD-10 options: Future codes for cubital tunnel syndrome will fall under G56, Mononeuropathies of upper limb. The classification excludes current traumatic nerve disorder, which you'll code as nerve injury according to the affected body region. The codes for cubital tunnel syndrome will be based on anatomic location:G56.20 -- Lesion of ulnar nerve, unspecified upper limbG56.21 -- Lesion of ulnar nerve, right upper limbG56.22 -- Lesion of ulnar nerve, left upper limb. Other conditions in the same classification will include G56.0x (Carpal tunnel syndrome), G56.1x (Other lesions of median nerve), G56.3x (Lesion of radial nerve), G56.4x (Causalgia of upper limb), G56.8 (Other specified mononeuropathies of upper limb), and G56.9 [...]
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