The April 2026 ICD-10-CM update brings impactful changes to instructional and sequencing rules without adding new diagnosis codes. Many Excludes1 notes have been converted to Excludes2, allowing ...

Medical coding professionals are entering a pivotal moment in 2026 as the industry grapples with the April 1 ICD-10-CM guideline updates and the most extensive CPT changes in recent memory, featuring ...

R87610 Atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance on cytologic smear of cervix (ASC-US) R87611 Atypical squamous cells cannot exclude high grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cytologic ...

H66001 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, right ear H66002 Acute suppurative otitis media without spontaneous rupture of ear drum, left ear H66003 Acute ...

In-hospital mortality for MV-ARDS improved in the ICD-9-CM era but worsened in the ICD-10-CM era, when a more stringent ARDS definition was used.

K8060 Calculus of gallbladder and bile duct with cholecystitis, unspecified, without obstruction L24A2 Irritant contact dermatitis due to fecal, urinary or dual incontinence L24B3 Irritant contact ...

Instruction can be found in Section II of the 2021 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting for "Selection of Principal Diagnosis." Q: When two conditions are both present on admission, ...

The fiscal year 2021 update to the ICD-10-CM code set introduced new codes to describe cytokine release syndrome (CRS), also known as a cytokine storm. A version of this article was first published ...

I120 Hypertensive chronic kidney disease with stage 5 chronic kidney disease or end stage renal disease I129 Hypertensive chronic kidney disease with stage 1 through stage 4 chronic kidney disease, or ...

#10: The ICD-10 is only new to the United States. ICD is the acronym for the International Classification of Diseases, which is the diagnostic manual of the World Health Organization (WHO). The ICD ...

G400 Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic syndromes with seizures of localized onset G4000 Localization-related (focal) (partial) idiopathic epilepsy and epileptic ...