ICD-10-CM

All right, you guys.

Now, before I sign off, I just wanted to make a quick reminder that tomorrow is October 1st and all of our ICD-10-CM codes for diagnoses and all of our ICD-PCS codes for procedures, all of these code sets are effective tomorrow, October 1st, 2026, all the way through September 30th of 2027.

So hopefully everybody has prepared already and is ready to start submitting claims tomorrow with these brand new codes.

Hopefully you guys are busy filming yourselves with all of the ICD-10-CM and ICD-PCS code books that are unboxing, right? I know people on Instagram love to go viral with their unboxing videos and strumming their nails around the paper packaging and boxes, etc.

So I hope you guys are having fun doing that.

I know I can't wait until my CPT codebook arrives and all of that snow is going to fall out of those books.

Today, our focus is going to be heart related.

So for our ICD-10-CM changes, remember we had that expansion of our cardiomyopathy

codes.

For dilated cardiomyopathies, our unspecified code option will now be I42.00. Our next new code, I42.01 for familial genetic dilated cardiomyopathy, allows us to track and study genetic cases.

An eCQM does not read a wound care consult or a nursing skin assessment narrative.

It reads the code, the stage character, and the POA flag.

As a result of this new measure, ICD-10-CM official guideline section 1C12A deserves fresh attention.

Category L89 codes are combination codes that identify site, laterality, and stage together.

Um, and then of course, there's a whole international effort that will have to happen, both for ICD-11, um, and for other countries that many of whom have their own unique ICD coding like us in the United States.

You know, we're the only ones that use the ICD-10-CM.

Australia has one, Germany has one.

So it's gonna go bit by bit, taking lots of time, unfortunately.