New codes are coming! While there are many changes each year, some are very common and close to home.
Please heed some of these notable changes below.
More details will follow in the coming weeks.
New codes for Pain/Chiro/PT providers:The current code, M54.5 (Low back pain), will be expanded into three more specific codes: You will no longer be able to use M54.5, you must further specify below.
M54.50 (Low back pain, unspecified)
M54.51 (Vertebrogenic low back pain)
M54.59 (Other low back pain)
New codes for PCP/Internal Providers:
The current code, R05 (Cough) will expand into more specific codes: You will no longer be able to use R05, you must further specify below.
R05.1 (Acute cough)
R05.2 (Subacute cough)
R05.3 (Chronic cough)
R05.4 (Cough syncope)
R05.8 (Other specified cough)
R05.9 (Cough, unspecified)
New codes for Behavioral Health providers:
F32.A Depression, unspecified under revised category F32 Depressive episode
New codes for SNF/Hospital providers:
Three new codes are added to Chapter 11 to classify esophageal diseases:
K22.1 Esophageal polyp
K22.82 Esophagogastric junction polyp
K22.89 Other specified disease of esophagus (hemorrhage of the esophagus NOS)
Updates for OBGYN
The addenda do not show any changes for Chapter 14: Diseases of the genitourinary system or Chapter 15: Pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, but Chapter 16 has nine new codes: one code for newborn affected by maternal group B Streptococcus colonization and eight codes to capture specific abnormal findings on neonatal screening.
Pediatric, ST and OT providers:
4 new codes
R63.30 Feeding difficulties, unspecified
R63.31 Pediatric feeding disorder, acute
R63.32 Pediatric feeding disorder, chronic
R63.39 Other feeding difficulties (feeding problem (elderly) (infant) NOS, picky eater)