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Healthcare Coding for Insurance Carriers One of the best ways medical coders can uphold proficiency with their coding skills is to understand each health plan’s specific billing and coding guidelines: • Maintain a current list of payers pertinent to the …
Next question is skull base surgery codes and modifier 51. Laura asks: How do you accurately code surgery of the skull base. Are your definitive codes considered to be a lesser code and is modifier 51 needed? Excellent question. This …
There can be confusion in patient status sometimes when medical coding. If you work for a hospital that does both outpatient and inpatient services you need to know the differences. For the most part the division is easy to follow. …
A Medical Coding Student Asks: “When coding 17000, 003 and 004, do you put the number of lesions removed units or do you just list each lesion separately with the 59 modifier? I’ve seen it both ways. I’m thinking of …
Medical coding instructors typically asked three basic questions from potential students with or without a healthcare background: 1. Are there a lot of employment opportunities? 2. What is the salary range? 3. Is it difficult to learn? With all professions, there …
CPC Certification — What is on the CPC exam? A visitor asked: “Hi I just needed to know what all does the test consist of. I know it will have some CPT and ICD-9 also a little terminology but what …
CodingCertification.Org is about coding but I thought they are related, I get this question a lot lately, “will your course help me to know how to do medical billing and coding?” No it will teach you how to do coding. …
Critical care coding in the ER is a specific section of evaluation and management coding. It involves only two codes which are 99291 and the add on code 99292 which can not be used alone. As far as E/M coding goes this …