AHIMA September 7, 2021
The fiscal year 2022 ICD-10-CM diagnosis code update was officially released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on June 24, 2021, effective for discharges and encounters on or after October 1, 2021. This year, unlike FY 2021, has a small number of diagnosis codes being added: 165 as compared to the 485 implemented the previous year. The full list of diagnosis codes that have been added, deleted, and revised can be found in tables 6A, 6C, and 6E of the IPPS Final Rule for FY 2022. Nine of these new codes have been designated as major complication and comorbidity (MCC) codes, and 11 codes have been designated as complication and comorbidity (CC) codes.
In addition, there were...
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