Billing Beat

OCE Quarterly Update

September 1, 2004

The Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System, Outpatient Code Editor (OCE) v5.3 has been updated with deletions and new additions.

  • One new code was added to the list of maternity diagnoses, age 12 – 55 years old
  • One hundred codes were removed from the list of adult diagnoses, age 15 – 124 years old
  • One new code was added to the list of male diagnoses
  • Thirty-three new codes were added to the list of female diagnoses

The following new code was added to the list of maternity diagnoses, age 12 – 55 years old:

Diagnosis Code Description
796.6 ABNORM NEONATE SCREENING

The following codes were removed from the list of adult diagnoses, age 15 – 124 years old:

Diagnosis Code Description
277.7 DYSMETABOLIC SYNDROME X
340 MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
410 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCT
410.01 AMI ANTEROLATERAL, INIT
410.02 AMI ANTEROLATERAL,SUBSEQ
410.10 AMI ANTERIOR WALL,UNSPEC
410.11 AMI ANTERIOR WALL, INIT
410.12 AMI ANTERIOR WALL,SUBSEQ
410.20 AMI INFEROLATERAL,UNSPEC
410.21 AMI INFEROLATERAL, INIT
410.22 AMI INFEROLATERAL,SUBSEQ
410.30 AMI INFEROPOST, UNSPEC
410.31 AMI INFEROPOST, INITIAL
410.32 AMI INFEROPOST, SUBSEQ
410.40 AMI INFERIOR WALL,UNSPEC
410.41 AMI INFERIOR WALL, INIT
410.42 AMI INFERIOR WALL,SUBSEQ
410.50 AMI LATERAL NEC, UNSPEC
410.51 AMI LATERAL NEC, INITIAL
410.52 AMI LATERAL NEC, SUBSEQ
410.60 TRUE POST INFARCT,UNSPEC
410.61 TRUE POST INFARCT, INIT
410.62 TRUE POST INFARCT,SUBSEQ
410.70 SUBENDO INFARCT, UNSPEC
410.71 SUBENDO INFARCT, INITIAL
410.72 SUBENDO INFARCT, SUBSEQ
410.80 AMI NEC, UNSPECIFIED
410.81 AMI NEC, INITIAL
410.82 AMI NEC, SUBSEQUENT
410.90 AMI NOS, UNSPECIFIED
410.91 AMI NOS, INITIAL
410.92 AMI NOS, SUBSEQUENT
411.0 POST MI SYNDROME
411.1 INTERMED CORONARY SYND
411.81 ACUTE COR OCCLSN W/O MI
411.89 AC ISCHEMIC HRT DIS NEC
412 OLD MYOCARDIAL INFARCT
413.0 ANGINA DECUBITUS
413.1 PRINZMETAL ANGINA
413.9 ANGINA PECTORIS NEC/NOS
429.2 ASCVD
433.00 OCL BSLR ART WO INFRCT
433.10 OCL CRTD ART WO INFRCT
433.20 OCL VRTB ART WO INFRCT
433.30 OCL MLT BI ART WO INFRCT
433.80 OCL SPCF ART WO INFRCT
433.90 OCL ART NOS WO INFRCT
435.8 TRANS CEREB ISCHEMIA NEC
435.9 TRANS CEREB ISCHEMIA NOS
441.00 DSCT OF AORTA UNSP SITE
441.01 DSCT OF THORACIC AORTA
441.02 DSCT OF ABDOMINAL AORTA
441.03 DSCT OF THORACOABD AORTA
441.1 RUPTUR THORACIC ANEURYSM
441.2 THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSM
441.3 RUPT ABD AORTIC ANEURYSM
441.4 ABDOM AORTIC ANEURYSM
441.5 RUPT AORTIC ANEURYSM NOS
441.6 THORACOABD ANEURYSM RUPT
441.7 THRACABD ANURYSM WO RUPT
441.9 AORTIC ANEURYSM NOS
442.0 UPPER EXTREMITY ANEURYSM
442.1 RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM
442.2 ILIAC ARTERY ANEURYSM
442.3 LOWER EXTREMITY ANEURYSM
442.81 ANEURYSM OF NECK
442.82 SUBCLAVIAN ANEURYSM
442.83 SPLENIC ARTERY ANEURYSM
442.84 VISCERAL ANEURYSM NEC
442.89 ANEURYSM NEC
442.9 ANEURYSM NOS
496 CHR AIRWAY OBSTRUCT NEC
722.0 CERVICAL DISC DISPLACMNT
722.10 LUMBAR DISC DISPLACEMENT
722.11 THORACIC DISC DISPLACMNT
722.2 DISC DISPLACEMENT NOS
722.30 SCHMORL’S NODES NOS
722.31 SCHMORLS NODE-THORACIC
722.32 SCHMORLS NODE-LUMBAR
722.39 SCHMORLS NODE-REGION NEC
722.4 CERVICAL DISC DEGEN
722.51 THORACIC DISC DEGEN
722.52 LUMB/LUMBOSAC DISC DEGEN
722.6 DISC DEGENERATION NOS
722.70 DISC DIS W MYELOPATH NOS
722.71 CERV DISC DIS W MYELOPAT
722.72 THOR DISC DIS W MYELOPAT
722.73 LUMB DISC DIS W MYELOPAT
722.80 POSTLAMINECTOMY SYND NOS
722.81 POSTLAMINECT SYND-CERV
722.82 POSTLAMINECT SYND-THORAC
722.83 POSTLAMINECT SYND-LUMBAR
722.90 DISC DIS NEC/NOS-UNSPEC
722.91 DISC DIS NEC/NOS-CERV
722.92 DISC DIS NEC/NOS-THORAC
722.93 DISC DIS NEC/NOS-LUMBAR
724.00 SPINAL STENOSIS NOS
724.01 SPINAL STENOSIS-THORACIC
724.02 SPINAL STENOSIS-LUMBAR
724.09 SPINAL STENOSIS-OTH SITE

The following new code was added to the list of male diagnoses:

Diagnosis Code Description
V8403 GENETC SUS MAL NEO PROST

The following new codes were added to the list of female diagnoses:

Diagnosis Code Description
618.00 VAGINAL WALL PROLPSE NOS
618.01 CYSTOCELE, MIDLINE
618.02 CYSTOCELE, LATERAL
618.03 URETHROCELE
618.04 RECTOCELE
618.05 PERINEOCELE
618.09 CYSTOURETHROCELE
618.81 INCOMPTNCE PUBOCERV TISS
618.82 INCOMPTNCE RECTOVAG TISS
618.83 PELVIC MUSCLE WASTING
618.89 GENITAL PROLAPSE NEC
621.30 ENDOMETRIAL HYPERPLA NOS
621.31 SIMP ENDO HYPER W/O ATYP
621.32 COMP ENDO HYPER W/O ATYP
621.33 ENDOMET HYPERPLA W ATYP
622.10 DYSPLASIA OF CERVIX NOS
622.11 MILD DYSPLASIA OF CERVIX
622.12 MOD DYSPLASIA OF CERVIX
629.20 GENITAL MUTILATION NOS
629.21 GENITAL MUTILATN TYPE I
629.22 GENITAL MUTILATN TYPE II
629.23 GENITAL MUILATN TYPE III
795.03 PAP SMEAR CERVIX W LGSIL
795.04 PAP SMEAR CERVIX W HGSIL
795.05 CERVICAL (HPV) DNA POS
795.08 PAP SMEAR UNSATISFACTORY
796.6 ABNORM NEONATE SCREENING
V72.31 ROUTINE GYN EXAMINATION
V72.32 PAP SMEAR CONFIRMATION
V72.40 PREGNANCY TEST UNCONFIRM
V72.41 PREGNANCY TEST NEGATIVE
V84.02 GENETC SUS MAL NEO OVARY
V84.04 GENETC SUSC MAL NEO ENDO

Sign up for Billing Beat