Podiatry Coding: Qualifications (Part 3)

Podiatry Coding: Qualifications (Part 3)

In order to qualify for therapeutic shoes and inserts, certain qualifications must be met in order for a podiatrist to be reimbursed. Patients who qualify for therapeutic shoes must have diabetic mellitus (ICD-9-CM codes 250.00 through 250.93) and have Medicare …

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CPT code for Thyroidectomy — VIDEO

What Is The Correct CPT Code for Thyroidectomy

Alright so this question is on thyroidectomies. It was, “I have a patient who’s having a right thyroid lobectomy done. What is the correct CPT code for thyroidectomy? Do I code for a total or a partial?” So let me …

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What is HCC coding? VIDEO

What is HCC coding

What is HCC coding? Okay, I think I said before that I’m doing the HCC coding now and I noticed that when we started the training, there was 15 people in there with the training at the same time that …

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What are E codes? — VIDEO

What are E codes? — VIDEO | CCO Medical Coding

E codes. They’re so much fun. A lot of people get confused about E codes but it’s not really that big of a deal once you start playing around with them a little bit. The mystery behind E codes. What …

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Preventative CPT Codes — VIDEO

preventative cpt codes

Ok everyone it looks like we made a mistake on our webinar and one of our students actually brought it to our attention so we are re-recording the preventative medicine answer key. Preventative medicine and Preventative CPT Codes starts with a range of …

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HCPCS Level II Modifiers — VIDEO

HCPCS Level II Modifiers — VIDEO | CCO Medical Coding

Okay, HCPCS Level II Modifiers. So Linda writes, “Can you please cover the determining fact between using modifiers 22, 23, 24, 25, etc and the level 2 HCPCS codes? Is the ones that go on E&M level and the others on the procedure …

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Prolonged Service Codes — VIDEO

Prolonged Service Codes — VIDEO | CCO Medical Coding

Okay, next up, another question from one of our students, wanted us to review prolonged service codes. So what I did… because we’re trying to make it for the replay club people. They get a nice packet and they get …

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