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ICD-10-PCS: Put your heart into coding pacemakers

Upon quick glance, codes for insertion, removal, and revision of pacemakers look quite different in ­ICD-10-PCS. The good news is that much of the ­logic that coders use to assign these codes in ICD-9-CM won't change. The silver lining? The procedure itself doesn't change, nor does anatomy.

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