HIV Codes and Guidelines – V Code vs. O Code – Video

Q: [HIV Codes ICD-9 (and ICD-10) Codes] On the HIV codes, when do you use the V code versus the O code? Would you code the patient as being active if they have a history of it?  A:  I will …

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Basic Cardiology Medical Coding Part 2 – Video

I grabbed another one, and again it is here for a six-month check. These are routine, very common cases where a person has a cardiac problem. Again, I’m going to go ahead and slide down to the bottom. I always …

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Basic Cardiology Medical Coding Part 1 – Video

Alicia:  Q:  [Basic Cardiology Medical Coding] I am having trouble putting it all together! Reading a question and figuring out what to do in cardio issues. Can you go over cardio? A:  What I decided to do was take a …

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Burn Medical Coding and the Rule of Nines – Video

A:  You bet I can. And it is confusing because the terms are interchangeable, both of them use them and yet they do them for different reasons, and so it does. It gets a little confusing. This is actually a …

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The Transbronchial Biopsy Medical Coding – Video

Q:  [Transbronchial Biopsy Medical Coding] – How would you code a transbronchial biopsy of the left lower lobe of the lung with BAL washings, but with no lung tissue identified on the pathology report? A:  The first thing is, what’s …

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Medical Auditing Conversion of Diagnosis Codes into DRG’s – Video

Laureen: And here’s the lineup of the pre-done questions for you. We will have open Q & A the last half hour, but these are the ones that we took our time doing some research and putting together some answer …

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ICD 10 Training | Initial Encounter vs. Subsequent – Video

Q: ICD 10 training – If a patient had an injury and went to the ER for initial treatment and sutures were placed. When they came to our office for suture removal, would that be an initial encounter as it is …

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ICD 10 Online Training with CCO – Video

This slide is to talk about the ICD-10 offerings that CCO has. Alicia, you want to explain what we have? Alicia: Sure, absolutely. We’ll, as you know, I went down to Tampa and we did an ICD-10-CM Blitz, a two-day …

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