Pulmonology Coding Alert

ICD-10:

New Post-Procedural Infection Codes to Debut Oct. 1

The 2019 diagnosis codes include over 300 additions. Sometimes, pulmonology practices wish for a plethora of new diagnosis codes to bolster their claims, while other years, the existing diagnoses suffice and coders are happy not to have hundreds of new ICD-10 codes to learn. This year leans more toward the latter situation -- 320 new diagnosis codes will debut on [...]
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