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When auditing a medical practice, the first thing I notice is the poor choice of diagnosis codes used to describe a patient’s condition. A claim is supposed to tell a complete story so the payer can determine if the claim …
I’m not sure how everybody says this Medicare or this… Laureen: Troponin. Alicia: Yeah, I wouldn’t have said troponin. I was going to say… Well, I’ll say troponin now because you said it. Now, I can’t remember how I said …
Medical Coding Tips: How to Code Continuous Nerve Blocks This nerve block follow up care, I had to call my friend Diana that went to Orlando with me just to confirm some information about this. Q: The question was: When …
Okay, next question. This is about a new patient consult with the family but the patient isn’t present. New Patient Versus Consultation – Video So, the question is, “I work in an Outpatient Cancer Center Facility and have a question …
My turn! I just had some information taught to the HCC coding place I work about the EMR vendors and I just thought that was pretty relevant, too, to what’s happening out there and someone had asked about EMR vendors. …
OK, coding for lungs and pleura procedures. Lungs and Pleura Coding – Video “I would love to hear some discussion on the differences of the diagnostic/therapeutic wedge resections (32666 – 32668) and also the wedge resections/biopsies (32607-32608). There is a …
Alright, coding for physicals. There was a question that had come in regarding V70.0 versus V72.3 and there’s another digit that would go with that. By the way, whenever you see that “x,” that’s what that means. That’s an optional …
Coding detached retina. This question had come up and it’s actually a scenario that happened so it’s not necessarily all about detached retina. The question that came up was, she says, “So, I’m coding lots of classes today,” and here’s …