FY 2024 ICD-10-PCS Code Updates Released
The ICD-10 Procedural Coding System (ICD-10-PCS) codes and updates for fiscal year (FY) 2024 have been released, and are available on the 2024 ICD-10-PCS Home Page of the CMS website. These codes are to be used for discharges occurring from October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024. The update files include official coding and reporting guidelines, code tables, index, definitions addenda and conversion table.
The update summary includes a total of 78,603 codes, the greatest number of which is located in the Medical and Surgical Section. The total number of codes includes the addition of 78 new codes, 14 title revisions and 5 deleted codes.
There are no new coding guidelines for 2024, but there are 2 changes, 1 addition and 1 deletion. Of interest is the removal of parenthetical examples from guideline B6.1a in the “General Guidelines for Devices.” This relates to the part of the guideline that discusses the circumstance where a device is intended to be left after the procedure is completed but requires removal before the end of the operative episode. In this case, both the insertion and removal of the device are coded. Two examples found in parentheses, “device size is inadequate”, and “an event documented as a complication occurs”, have been removed from the body of the guideline.
