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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 …
Alicia: Okay, I’m confused about the difference between etiology and manifestation codes. What is the difference and do you know any example… have any examples? And we just happen to have that. This is basic for coders. You know, you …
The future of ICD-10. I know that everybody gets really nervous when they hear about ICD 9 to ICD 10. Actually, if you’re a student now, I think it should kind of exciting because you’re right at the beginning of …
Colonoscopy screening. The question is, “Doctor sees the patient in the office for screening colonoscopy.” So they’re like, “Is it V76.51 or V76.59?” “The doctor spends about 15 minutes with the patient and then we go in and spend another …
Medical coding for pregnancy. I really like this because this is one of the most common questions that I get when I’m teaching. Pregnancy can be really intimidating because there’s so many codes that are involved. One of our PBC …
Medicare Terminology and Forms to Know For Coders Medicare terminology can take some getting used to for most people. Terms get abbreviated to save time. Two common abbreviated terms that you should be aware of are the MSN and RA. …
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 …