Impact of General Surgery Coding changes on Reimbursement in 2019

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• Impact of General Surgery Coding changes on
  Reimbursement in 2019

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Impact of General Surgery Coding changes on
Reimbursement in 2019
More than 135 ICD-10-CM changes and 69 CPT
updates are in the year 2019. General surgery
coders are most impacted in 2019. Youll need to
navigate changes for eyelid neoplasm,
post-procedural infection, appendicitis, FNA,
allograft, transcatheter insertion or replacement
or removal of permanent leadless pacemaker, and
more. Some impact of General Surgery coding
updates on reimbursement in 2019 is discussed
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Impact of General Surgery Coding changes on
Reimbursement in 2019
Some updates K35 Apply the newly expanded code
set for appendicitis K82 Grab the right gall
bladder code every time N35 Unblock your
confusion over urethral stricture codes Capture
the severity of rectal abscess with the K61 code
set Use specific codes for cholangitis
(K83.0)including changed combination codes Ditch
your old post-procedure infection codes and use
the new T81.4 series instead Avoid common errors
in diagnosis documentation and surgery coding And
change your ICD-10 ways to maximize CDI efforts
and satisfy MIPS Its imperative that you sharpen
your understanding of what the documentation must
say to support each ICD-10 surgery code. Spend
some time for gaining knowledge will pay off all
year long by maximizing reimbursement and
clinical documentation improvement
efforts. Initially in 2019 ICD-10-CM code list
introduces approximately 500 diagnosis code
changes, with well over 100 in the general
surgery category. You have until October 1, 2018
to prepare.
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Impact of General Surgery Coding changes on
Reimbursement in 2019
To prevent miscoding, a parenthetical was added
to the CPT code set that instructs not to report
29581 in conjunction along with codes for
treatment of incompetent veins (36465, 36466,
36468, 36470, 36471, 36473, 36474, 36475, 36476,
36478, 36479, 36482, and 36483) for the same
extremity. You should also be note that the code
29581 should not be reported for simply wrapping
the lower extremity with elastic bandages. Are
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