Get ready for the new and revised diagnosis codes you’ll be using after Oct. 1.
This year's crop of diagnosis code changes will take effect in just a few short weeks. New codes for influenza, uterine anomalies, personal history and transfusion incompatibility are just a few of the changes that will affect your claims process and documentation requirements.
Join coding expert Margie Scalley Vaught for this 60-minute webinar, and get a fast and accurate examination of the new codes and code series and how you’ll be putting them to use starting Oct. 1.
Agenda: Get your staff up to speed on final 2011 diagnosis code changes, including:
- Big changes for OB/Gyn coders, including a new code series for uterine anomalies, multiple gestations and incontinence
- New obesity-related codes for very high body mass index and obesity hypoventilation syndrome
- New V-codes for corrected congenital malformations – find out how these may make the difference in getting follow-up visits paid
- New “retained fragments” codes that could prove key in treatment of trauma patients
- New code series for Avian and novel H1N1 influenza that you’ll want to have down before the fall flu season begins.
Don’t be left scrambling – get up to speed on these codes now and be ready to go on Oct. 1.
Margie Scalley Vaught

