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Okay so understanding tissue grafts. A student asked, “I’m having a hard time understanding tissue grafts and how to code them. How do I know when to use more than one code?” Okay, one more slide before I go to …
Let’s say you are the medical coding and billing manager for a large medical group practice. It’s a rewarding career because you see your staff’s efforts transforming your doctors’ hard work into serious dollars due to accurate documentation, coding, and …
I like doing the anesthesia coding maybe because it’s got… it’s like E&M but it’s smaller. It has its own little area in the CPT book and once you know the basics, you’re good to go. There’s really not that …
Where do I take the CPC Exam? This is one of the things that I think a lot of people don’t think about when they get ready to sign up for the AAPC and they’re going to take the medical …
Burn coding. A student asked us to review ICD coding for burns. So if you have your coding manuals, I’m going to be turning to the tabular section of ICD 9 starting with code 940. So at any rate, here’s …
Alright so I’m going to take this first question. This was one… actually, I got twice this week so I said alright. There’s an EM practice board exam question out there, I won’t say where. I reworded it so I …
There are specific guidelines to follow when coding and billing Medicare for a Pap smear and pelvic exam. Physicians ask quite frequently if it’s acceptable to bill a pelvic exam with a Pap smear when only a breast exam was …
Late effect guidelines. “How does a coder determine and sequence late effect and principal diagnosis in ICD-9? This is probably a very basic question but as a rookie coding student, it’s confusing to me right now.” Well, it’s confusing to …