Medical Coding – Late Effect vs Residual Effect – Video

Medical Coding Late Effect vs Residual Effect

Late Effect vs Residual Effect Q: “AAPC says: A ‘late effect’ is the residual effect that remains after the acute phase of an illness or injury has terminated. It also says: The residual effect is coded first and is followed by …

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Ecode Question for Finger Stick – Video

Ecode Question for Finger Stick

Q: “Can I ask a strange question. I had an issue with using an E-code for a finger stick. E920.5 “– which would be the proper E-code – “with a V58.30 or 915.8 as primary codes. I was told that …

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Medical Coder Profile: Becky Curtis

Medical Coder Profile: Becky Curtis

Becky Curtis works at MedAmerica Billing Services, Inc. in Tucson, Arizona. She is a level 3 Coding Specialist and has been there for four months. Here are some of her thoughts on coding today. Medical Coder Profile: Becky Curtis Do …

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Medical Terminology and Anatomy Course — Video

Medical Terminology and Anatomy Course

The Medical Terminology and Anatomy Course itself, the entire course is approved for CEUs. That’s 40 in one [bell swoop – 0:18:09. That’s definitely exciting. You don’t need that many in any given year. Your Review Blitz Video Package that’s …

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Medical Coding Training Courses & Products — Video

Laureen: Just to give a quick outline on the products we have, as we’re going along answering questions in the chat, a lot of times we get, “What’s this course? What’s this? What’s the Blitz?” So, we have a Medical …

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Medical Coder Profile: Marykay Stein, CPC-A — Video

Medical Coder Profile – Marykay Stein, CPC-A

Laureen: Alright, this is where we do a little interview of Marykay. I think Alicia, were you going to do? Alicia: Yes! Mary, first let’s start off with what products from us you have used so far, from CCO? Marykay: I …

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Process of Elimination for ICD 9 Medical Coding – Part 3 – Video

ICD 9 Medical coding Part 3

Now, let’s look at some examples, I’ve got three sets of example here. Without even looking and without having this memorized, this is how you’re going to break this up to see if you can pull out an answer before …

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Process of Elimination for ICD 9 Medical Coding (Part 2) — Video

ICD 9 Medical coding Part 2 -1

What about Combo codes? When you’re dealing with ICD-9, you are going to see combo codes – meaning, two codes to explain the one disease process or what’s going on. That’s kind of like up here where we had acute …

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