Orthopedic Coding Alert
October 2016 Brought New Postprocedure Haemorrhage, Hematoma Dx
Question: What are the changes for ICD-10 postprocedure haemorrhage codes for the spinal cord?
North Carolina Subscriber
Answer: The ICD-10 changes for post procedure haemorrhage and hematoma allows you to separately report these two conditions.
As of October 1, you should see two new codes for postprocedure hematoma:
The descriptors of codes G97.51 (Postprocedural hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedure) and G97.52 (Postprocedural hemorrhage and hematoma of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedure) will be revised to ‘postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following a nervous system procedure’ ‘postprocedural hemorrhage of a nervous system organ or structure following other procedure,’ respectively. This makes G97.51 and G97.52 specific for postprocedure haemorrhage.
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October 2016 Brought New Postprocedure Haemorrhage, Hematoma Dx
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