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Diagnosis Coding: Ways to Decode Your Doctor’s Notes
Category: Health and Fitness | June 25, 2010
If the doctor in your office fails to point out to the ICD-9 code for the condition he tended to, you should read through his documentation to find which diagnoses you should go for.
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Easy Counseling Codes Acceptance with Distinct Dxs
Category: Health and Fitness | June 25, 2010
Medicare rule: Medicare will cover up to eight sessions during a second or subsequent 12-month period of counseling after 11 months have passed since the first Medicare covered cessation counseling session was carried out.
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Capture Kegel Exercise Pay With Evaluation/Management
Category: Health and Fitness | June 22, 2010
There is no particular CPT or HCPCS Codes for the performance of or teaching of kegal exercises.
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Collect HPV pay with the right screening versus reflex diagnoses
Category: Health and Fitness | June 22, 2010
ICD-9 points: The screening gynecological exam code (V72.31, Routine gynecological examination) used to serve for HPV test orders
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BB-gun injury has bearing on your ophthalmology coding
Category: Health and Fitness | June 22, 2010
The BB-gun injury six years ago or more has something to do with why the patient is there. The diagnosis code always depends on the reason of the visit
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Anesthesia coding: Figure out the missing EGD reimbursement link
Category: Health and Fitness | June 21, 2010
Anesthesia coding: Diagnosis code should point to the co-existing medical condition that justifies your anesthesiologist’s involvement in the case, not the gastrointestinal condition leading to the endoscopy
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Compliance: Restrain upcoding mistakes or risk OIG scrutiny
Category: Health and Fitness | June 21, 2010
Dermatology coding practices have to stay compliant with government regulations – and even though this sounds like a simple fact, it is one that many Part B providers may fail to take notice of.
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Ob gyn coding: Clue in to these CCI edits prior to choosing 0193T
Category: Health and Fitness | June 21, 2010
CCI version 16.1’s lack of ob-gyn mutually exclusive edits put you into a false sense of security.
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Radiology Coders – Tighten up your Lap Band Coding
Category: Health and Fitness | June 18, 2010
Code 77002 right for fluoro used for gastric band adjunsment in the outpatient setting, according to the American Hospital Association’s Coding Clinic for HCPCS Vol. 9, No. 3, 2009. Of course, the code is only right when the doctor uses and documents the fluoroscopic guidance.
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Surgical Coding: Heed These Hernia Bundling Rules
Category: Health and Fitness | June 18, 2010
Surgical Coding: Right procedure code for this scenario is 4958. If the gallstone resection represents a significant amount of extra time and effort, modifier 22 would be apt.
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Fracture Diagnosis Prior to coding Repair
Category: Health and Fitness | June 18, 2010
Orthopedist tended to a patient in the emergency department for a gunshot wound and diagnosed a metacarpal fracture. He irrigated the site and eliminated a foreign body. That time you can report fracture care along with irrigation 20103.
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Be aware of these RAC fast facts
Category: Health and Fitness | June 16, 2010
You have got so many compliance acronyms flying at you each day that you may not be able to discriminate your RAC from the OIG.
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ICD-10: Identify documentation improvement opportunities now
Category: Health and Fitness | June 16, 2010
Prepare yourself for ICD-10; you must start identifying medical record documentation improvement opportunities.
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Diagnostic Tests Documentation for Sure-Shot Success
Category: Health and Fitness | June 16, 2010
The documentation required to support a charge for 92567 would depend on whether the paper strip or reading would be available in the event of an audit.
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Red Flags Rule Enforcement Delay Yet Again
Category: Health and Fitness | June 15, 2010
Red Flags Rule : medical practices were geared up to buckle down and ensure that their plans were in place as the rule was about to go into effect.
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