AMA CPT® Assistant - 2014 Issue 11 (November)
Neoplasm Coding and the Neoplasm Table (November 2014)
November 2014 pages 11-13 Neoplasm Coding and the Neoplasm Table Selecting the proper diagnosis code from the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM), will demand thorough patient documentation because coding will require a greater level of details. ICD-9-CM has around 14,000 codes. ICD-10-CMhas approximately 69,000 codes, with the potential for more than 85,000 codes because of the additional details required for diagnosis coding in the form of additional characters (or digits) in an ICD-10-CM code. This article discusses the ICD-10-CM changes as they relate to neoplasm coding. The ICD-9-CM's Neoplasms Table contains 960...
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