ICD-10: Orient Yourself To These New ICD-10 Ovarian Cyst Codes

Your 620 codes become N83 ones in 2013.

An ovarian cyst consists of a fluid filled closed sac or cavity in the ovary. The cyst is usually lined by epithelium. They can be normal, abnormal, non-neoplastic, or neoplastic tissues.

Here's how you report these codes right now:

• 620.0 -- Follicular cyst of ovary
• 620.1 -- Corpus luteum cyst or hematoma
• 620.2 -- Other and unspecified ovarian cyst.

When your diagnosis coding system changes in 2013, you'll report ovarian cysts like this:

• N83.0 -- Follicular cyst of ovary
• N83.1 -- Corpus luteum cyst
• N83.20 -- Unspecified ovarian cysts
• N83.29 -- Other ovarian cysts

ICD-10-CM Change: For a follicular cyst of ovary and the corpus luteum cyst, you have a [...]

- Published on 2011-12-15