ICD Medical Coding: Intraocular Lens — VIDEO

ICD Medical Coding: Intraocular Lens — VIDEO

The first question is an ICD medical coding question. At first I thought it was maybe a procedure when I saw the title, intraocular lens. But the student asked, “What is the diagnosis code assignment for contraction of the anterior …

Read more…

What Are V Codes in Medical Coding? — VIDEO

What Are V Codes in Medical Coding? — VIDEO

Alicia: Oh last month, we had E codes and this month we get V codes. What are V Codes in medical coding? They’re very exciting. Not as much fun as E codes which I remember somebody said they called them …

Read more…

CCS Exam and Physician Based Coding Course — VIDEO

CCS Exam and Physician Based Coding Course

Alicia: I see something that’s popping up quite a bit on the Twitter chat. They’re wanting to know if you know, can they take the PBC course and that’ll help them pass the CCS exam? Laureen: The CSS P or …

Read more…

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 …

Read more…

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 …

Read more…

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 …

Read more…

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 …

Read more…

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 …

Read more…

Clinical Doc Guides