{"id":21,"date":"2020-06-11T21:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T01:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billingncoding.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2020-09-22T17:38:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:38:50","slug":"creation-and-structure-of-icd-10-pcs-codes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billingncoding.com\/blog\/icd10-pcs\/creation-and-structure-of-icd-10-pcs-codes\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation and structure of ICD 10 PCS CODES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>World Health Organization<\/strong> has maintained the <strong>Interna\u00adtional Classification of Diseases (ICD)<\/strong> for recording cause of death since 1893. It has updated the ICD periodically to reflect new discoveries in epidemiology and changes in medical understanding of disease.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the U.S., contracted with 3M Health Information Systems in 1993 to design and develop a procedural classifica\u00adtion system that would replace Volume 3 of ICD-9-CM.<\/p>\n<p>ICD-10-PCS was initially released in 1998. It has been updated annually since that time although it was not put into operation until 2015. The ICD-10-PCS code set has a logical, consistent structure that follows a logical consistent process down to the individual character level. Individual letters and numbers, called \u201cvalues,\u201d are selected in sequence to occupy the seven spaces of the code, called \u201ccharacters.\u201d. ICD-10-PCS is composed of 17 sections, represented by the numbers 0\u20139 and the letters B\u2013D and F\u2013H, and X. The broad procedure categories contained in these sections range from surgical procedures to substance abuse treatment and new technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billingncoding.com\/icd10pcs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">All codes in ICD-10-PCS<\/a> are seven characters long. Each character in the seven-character code represents an aspect of the procedure, as shown in the following diagram:<\/p>\n<div id=\"footable_parent_555\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_0\" data-footable_id=\"555\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"ICD-10-PCS seven-character code diagram\"            id=\"footable_555\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_21842602_555\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_555 ninja_table_unique_id_21842602_555 ui table ninja_table_search_disabled nt_type_ajax_table selectable celled striped compact vertical_centered footable-paging-right\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_3 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_4 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_5 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_6 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n            <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n<p>For more information please refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billingncoding.com\/icd10pcs-defs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Billingncoding.com ICD 10 PCS sections<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Resources:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><small><a href=\"about:blank\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Coding\/ICD10\/Downloads\/<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"about:blank\">https:\/\/www.who.int\/classifications\/icd<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization has maintained the Interna\u00adtional Classification of Diseases (ICD) for recording cause of death since 1893. 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