Medical Coding Lesion Removal

Medical Coding Lesion Removal

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 …

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Organic Insomnia versus Non-organic Insomnia

Medical Coding - Organic Insomnia versus Non-organic Insomnia

Ruth- one of our students- wanted to get an explanation of organic insomnia versus non-organic insomnia. She tried to look up in the dictionary to get the definition but it didn’t help her. So what we did was we looked …

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