ICD-10:
Update Your Phimosis, Balanitis Diagnoses for 2015
Published on Wed Dec 10, 2014
Don’t expect a straight 1-to-1 transition. Urologists often perform circumcisions to treat phimosis and balanitis, and payers will reimburse for these procedures with the correct diagnostic codes. When your urologist performs a circumcision for either of these conditions, your diagnosis coding is fairly easy. But when ICD-10 goes into effect in October 2015, you’ll need more details to choose the [...]