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Use 1 Code to Represent Several Spinal Nerve Cyst Types
Question: Encounter notes indicate that the surgeon treated a patient with 鈥渃yst, lumb nerve root.鈥� When searching the ICD-10-CM code book, I鈥檓 unable to locate a matching diagnosis code. Could you recommend a code, or explain what the surgeon鈥檚 note means? Louisiana Subscriber Answer: Your surgeon鈥檚 note almost certainly means the patient has a cyst on their lumbar nerve root. You鈥檒l report G96.191 (Perineural cyst) for this patient鈥檚 cyst. If you look in the notes beneath G96.191, you鈥檒l see that lumbar nerve root cyst is an alternate term for perineural cyst. More on this Dx: When a patient has a cyst on a spinal nerve root, ICD-10-CM wants you to use G96.191 almost exclusively. In addition to lumbar nerve root cyst, here are the other alternate terms you should code with G96.191: Chris Boucher, MS, CPC, Senior Development Editor, AAPC
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