Why hospitals would want procedures coded in CPT and ICD-10-PCS coding
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.
It also allows hospitals more scheduling flexibility if medical coders are skilled in CPT and ICD-10-PCS coding.
- Let that ulcer bleed: How to code the treatment of a bleeding peptic ulcer. (ICD-10 Trainer)
- ICD-10-CM/PCS – Part 56: Amputating the little finger. (Codebusters)
