ICD-10: C22.- Adds Specificity to Liver Neoplasm Coding

Hepatocellular carcinomas and hepatoblastomas split paths under ICD-10.

When you start using ICD-10 in 2013, you'll have to leave your 155.0 comfort zone and start using more specific codes for primary liver neoplasms.

ICD-9: A number of diagnoses fall under the ICD-9 code you currently use:

• 155.0, Malignant neoplasm of liver primary

Carcinoma:

liver, specified as primary

hepatocellular

liver cell

Hepatoblastoma

ICD-10: The new code set does not provide a one-to-one corresponding code. Instead, you'll need to choose from a number of possibilities:

• C22.0, Liver cell carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatoma

• C22.2, Hepatoblastoma
• C22.3, Angiosarcoma of liver

Kupffer cell sarcoma

• C22.4, Other sarcomas of liver
• C22.7, Other [...]
  
  - Published on 2011-10-11