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Laureen: Q: This next question is about preventative E/M coding with a regular E/M and whether or not a modifier is needed. This reply was actually started by Alicia so I’m kind of stealing it. She might jump in and …
Boyd: Can you show them on the website where to put in that number? I think there was a question on the chat about that. Laureen: On the AAPC website? Sure. If you go to AAPC.com and you log in. …
Alicia: Q: She had a question about these codes 655 and 656, fetal conditions affecting the mother’s care. Her basic question here is: When do you separate the charts? When do you have a baby chart and a mother chart? …
There are multiple medical coding training opportunities online and in the classroom for coders and healthcare providers to learn proper documentation as ICD-10-CM quickly descends upon us. Two websites that offer excellent training are www.cco.us and www.aapc.com; however, insurance carriers …
Medical coding for pressure ulcers – these are fun, not quite as much fun as neoplasms, but most people that start out in the medical field when they’re young they end up working in, they used to be called nursing …
Laureen: Medical Decision Making. Q: In E/M, in Medical Decision Making, Number of Diagnoses (New Problem) Maximum 1. What does this mean? Can someone explain this to me? Thanks. Medical Decision Making – Video A: What I did is, I …
Question: Neoplasms – I really, really like neoplasms. I don’t know why but I just do. What’s the difference between benign and malignant neoplasms? Answer: It can get very confusing, but keep in mind that benign is not bad, malignant …
Multiple Diagnoses in One Category – this can confuse people a little bit. You can use multiple codes for one category. It’s not like you just grab one and then that’s all you can use because you use that category, …