The ICD-10-PCS codes for 2014 are now available on the CMS website. CMS also posted the 2014 ICD-10-PCS guidelines and an ICD-10-PCS reference manual. You will find four new codes under new...
The ICD-10-PCS defines root operations excision and resection in a very similar way. Excision is cutting out or off, without replacement, a portion of a body part. Coders should report the qualifier...
Another new term coders will need to know for ICD-10-PCS root operations is fragmentation. Fragmentation is breaking solid matter in the body into pieces. Note that in a fragmentation procedure, the...
ICD-10-PCS includes specific guidelines for coding spinal fusion procedures, including guidelines for selecting the body part value. The body part for a spinal vertebral joint(s) rendered immobile by...
We won’t need to learn any new ICD-10-PCS codes or guidelines for 2015. CMS released the draft codes and guidelines and they include not much of anything. That’s not really a surprise since the code...
CMS has released the 2011 versions of the ICD-10-CM/PCS crosswalks, also known as the General Equivalence Mappings (GEM) on its ICD-10 website . In addition, CMS also posted a document titled “ICD-10...
The multiple procedure guidelines in ICD-10-PCS present possibilities for coder confusion. Several guidelines relate to the coding of multiple procedures, some under the heading of multiple...
ICD-10-PCS requires coders to possess strong clinical knowledge as well as a solid foundation in anatomy and physiology. Coders need to understand what physicians are actually doing in certain...
Not all of the ICD-10-PCS root operations are complicated or confusing. Take reattachment for example. The root operation is pretty much what you would expect. The official definition of reattachment...
When a physician performs a procedure designed to put in a device without doing anything else to a body part, coders will report ICD-10-PCS root operation insertion (third character H in the medical...
