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Look for These New Pressure Ulcer, Injury, Encounter ICD-10-CM Codes

Published on Wed Jul 17, 2019

This year’s diagnosis code revisions won’t hurt a bit. The good news about this year’s ICD-10-CM tabular addenda, which highlights changes to the 2020 code set, is that the changes are manageable. “The 2020 Tabular Addenda is only 36 pages, some of which are mostly blank,” notes Jan Blanchard, CPC, CPMA, pediatric solutions consultant at Vermont-based PCC. All told, there [...]
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