Slim Year for ICD-10 Coding Updates
Just like the past couple of years, we've been waiting rather impatiently over the last couple of months for the release of the fiscal year (FY) 2019 ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS code updates. While the PCS code sets have been out for a month or two, the CM updates were released just last week, sans coding guidelines, which we are still eagerly awaiting. FY 2019 codes will be implemented on October 1, 2018 (the federal fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30). In case you're wondering how the code changes stack up to previous years, what the process is for updating the code sets, or why they aren't released at the same time, this post is for you! In comparison to past years, it's a slim year for code updates. When the code sets were unfrozen for FY 2017 after ICD-10 implementation, we saw a whopping 2,710 CM and 4,330 PCS code changes. Last year, for the FY 2018 release, there were 731 CM and 6,029 PCS code changes. FY 2019 has a pretty sharp...