CMS and the American Academy of Professional Coders hosted a Code-a-Thon on April 26, at which coding experts from AAPC responded to nearly 250 questions from more than 1,200 participants, according to a CMS release.
Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, CGSC, COBGC, CPEDC, CENTC, vice president of business and member development for AAPC, presented several case studies showing the differences in coding from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. She presented an example where ICD-9-CM's single code for complications of a foreign body accidentally left in the patient's body following a procedure moves to 50 different codes related to the complication under ICD-10-CM.
Access the transcript for the CMS/AAPC code-a-thon here.
Access the audio for the ICD-10 code-a-thon here.
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Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, CGSC, COBGC, CPEDC, CENTC, vice president of business and member development for AAPC, presented several case studies showing the differences in coding from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM. She presented an example where ICD-9-CM's single code for complications of a foreign body accidentally left in the patient's body following a procedure moves to 50 different codes related to the complication under ICD-10-CM.
Access the transcript for the CMS/AAPC code-a-thon here.
Access the audio for the ICD-10 code-a-thon here.
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