Surgical wound infection codes set to expand dramatically in FY2019

Effective Apr 26, 2018
Published Apr 30, 2018
Last Reviewed Apr 25, 2018
Home health coders could have 435 ICD-10-CM code changes to deal with starting Oct. 1, with 247 new codes, 139 revised codes and 49 codes rendered invalid, according to the proposed hospital inpatient prospective payment system rule (IPPS) rule released April 24.
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