Becker's Healthcare June 26, 2019
CMS has provided ICD-10-CM coding updates for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2019, and ending Sept. 30, 2020.
Five takeaways:
1. The updated ICD-10-CM codes are for discharges and patient encounters taking place in fiscal year 2020.
2. There are 72,184 ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2020 compared to 71,932 for fiscal year 2019, according to the American Health Information Management Association.
3. For fiscal year 2020, 273 codes were added, 21 were deleted and 30 were revised.
4. Among the added codes...
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