Section I.C.19 of the “Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting” (OCG) contains the guidelines for ICD-10-CM Chapter 19: Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes. Of all the chapters in ICD-10-CM, Chapter 19 (S00-T88) contains the most codes with 87 new codes added for FY 2020. That brings the Chapter 19 total to […]

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 The four new codes resulted from an expansion of codes I48.1 and I18.2, (below) which are no longer valid: 1 Persistent atrial fibrillation, […]