Wednesday, August 5, 2015

ICD10-PCS codes for Inpatient | CPT codes for Outpatient !!!!!

Why hospitals would want procedures coded in CPT and ICD-10-PCS coding

Carl Natale
by CARL NATALE


With less than two months to go, it shouldn't need repeating that ICD-10-PCS will only be used by hospitals for inpatient procedures. That means hospitals will use CPT codes for outpatient procedures. Remember that's for billing.
But in the ulcer example from ICD-10 Trainer below, they used ICD-10-PCS codes for an outpatient procedure. Yes, CPT was used for reimbursement. But this example imagined a hospital that wanted to have the same data to compare inpatient data and outpatient data.