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Q: (Port and Catheter Status Codes – these are V codes). What ICD-9 codes are used to report that a patient has a port for receiving medications (antibiotics, chemotherapy, infusions, etc.)? Not the CPT codes for placement of port. Also, …
Laureen: Someone asked: what the difference is between PBCO and CPMA? One is for compliance and one is for auditing, so they’re related but they’re different. The auditing might be looking at E/M charts, surgical charts and checking them for …
Injections and infusions – I had some help with this from Jo-Anne Sheehan. She was going to help us present, we’re actually going to have her join us regularly to present, but her father-in-law is in the hospital right now, …
Laureen: HCC Course – You kind of talked about this a little bit, but if you want to share, we’re getting a lot of buzz in the chat about HCC people who are long time HCC coders, like, “Yey! Finally, …
Q: Labs 80048 and 80069 – I have a claim billed with 80048 (which is a panel code), 82040, 84100, and 84439. The CCI edit re-bundles all of the labs into 80069 the renal function panel. Why is this so? …
This one threw me, because it says, “Photo of EVAR,” and I wasn’t sure what they were talking about. Laureen looked at that and said, “I don’t know.” She was thinking the same thing I was, but when I went …
Alicia: OK. The first thing that you need to know about Botox is what is Botox? I’ve covered that in here, but the question that came with this was a little confusing to me because I really wasn’t sure what …
A: This is a fantastic question because in both coding and billing world, you’re going to need to know what is an ABN. The ABN stands for Advanced Beneficiary Notice. This deals with Medicare. It’s a Medicare waiver, actually, and …