The addition of a new sixth character option to code category L89, Pressure Ulcer, was approved at the September 2018 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee meeting. This sixth character resulted in the addition of 25 new codes, effective for FY2020. The sixth character, which happens to be “6,” is used to denote “pressure-induced deep tissue […]

Four new codes for atrial fibrillation were added to code category I48 Atrial fibrillation and flutter for FY2020 to enable data capture of additional specific types of atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib). The four new codes resulted from an expansion of codes I48.1 and I18.2, (below) which are no longer valid: 1 Persistent atrial fibrillation, […]

“Gender Identity Disorder,” “Transgender,” “Gender Incongruence, “Gender Dysphoria,” are terms used in the past and present to denote, as defined in the American Psychiatric Associations “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), individuals who “…have a marked incongruence between the gender they have been assigned to (usually at birth, referred to as […]