ICD10monitor June 13, 2022
New codes and guidelines become effective Oct. 1, 2023.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the ICD-10-PCS codes and guidelines for the 2023 fiscal year on May 26, 2022. These inpatient procedure codes and guidelines will become effective Oct. 1, 2022.
There are 331 new procedure codes and 64 deleted codes. The guidelines have added B3.19 (Detachment procedures of the extremities) and revised B4.1c (Procedure on Tubular Body Parts) and B6.1a (General Coding of Device).
The new guideline B3.19 provides detailed instructions regarding the coding of complete and partial amputation of the extremities by including this table for the qualifiers:
The revision to guideline B4.1c is a further specification that when a vascular procedure is performed on...
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