Every year on October 1, coders come face to face with new diagnosis codes
, code deletions, and code revisions. This year however, there are minimal changes to your urology coding. A coder can save herself the hassle of scouring the full list, and focus on the rundown of the changes that may have an impact on urology practices. The proposed changes to ICD-9 2011 add one new personal history code specific to genitourinary congenital corrections.
Here's an instance: Your urologist tends to chronic prostatitis in an adult patient who had a hypospadias penile repair as a kid. Adding the new code as well as 601.1 will add to the reporting accuracy of your overall clinical scenario.
What's more, post the changes, you will have to replace 787.6 with five new fecal impaction and incontinence codes in your urological practice.
ICD-9 this time has expanded the body mass index (BMI) codes to show higher body mass index with five new codes. BMI has become an important health tool, and those just-in codes will also provide more data.
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