Ob-Gyn Coding Alert

Clarification:

New ICD-9 List Includes Several Endometrial Hyperplasia Codes

Published on Tue Jul 27, 2004

In the August 2004 Ob-Gyn Coding Alert article "Prepare Yourself for Monumental ICD-9 Changes," the section about new codes you can use as of Oct. 1 to report endometrial cystic hyperplasia should list the following:

621.30 -- Endometrial hyperplasia, unspecified (You should use this code when the path report does not clarify or qualify the hyperplasia.)

621.31 -- Simple endometrial hyperplasia without atypia

621.32 -- Complex endometrial hyperplasia without atypia

621.33 -- Endometrial hyperplasia with atypia.

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