Cath Lab Digest
Issue Number: Volume 23 – Issue 5 – May, 2015
Author: Anne Pavlik, RHIT, Senior Education Consultant, Amphion Medical Solutions
Contributor: Alisa Engel, RHIT, CPC-H, Senior Education Consultant, Amphion Medical Solutions
ICD-10-PCS (International Clas-sification of Diseases, 10th revision, procedure coding system) was created to improve the coding of procedures to include more specificity, as well as to allow enough space for expansion in order to include technological advances in methods of treatment. While the increased detail in coding procedures provides a more accurate portrayal of a patient encounter, it does produce some challenges, particularly for the catheterization lab.
Read more about changes in the cath lab with the upcoming implementation of ICD-10-PCS.
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