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When to Use 'Uncertain Behavior Diagnosis Code'?

You may be in for a great loss if you always use diagnosis code 238.2 while reporting 11100 for a biopsy procedure your surgeon performs. The best way to know when to use the 'uncertain behavior' diagnosis code is understanding what that code descriptor r... Read >
Author: James Smith

How Lyme disease, ear pain diagnosis will change in 2013

Suggestion: Your diagnosis coding will depend on which ear was affected once ICD-10 hits. Since CMS has reiterated that it'll not push back the deadlines for the conversion to ICD-10, you will need to have your ICD-10 coding skills ready by October 1, 20... Read >
Author: James Smith

Eye Infection, Strep Diagnoses Post ICD-10

When ICD-10 goes into effect, you will have to gear up for changes across the board as far as diagnosis coding is concerned. Many a time, you will have more choices that may need changing the way you document services and a coder reports it. Take a look a... Read >
Author: James Smith

Anesthesia Coding: For True Emergencies Turn to +99140

Reporting any qualifying circumstances (QC) codes for anesthesia can be a tricky affair. However knowing when to classify a situation as a true emergency can be a real challenge, unless of course you are equipped in the emergency conditions guidelines. ... Read >
Author: Erin Lang Masercola

Claim Scrubber Improves Medical Bill Collection

Claim Scrubber analyzes claim data on the claim form and compares the same to its own rules engine before the claim is submitted for collection. There are many levels of scrubbing and a good scrubber will analyze the data on many levels. The most importan... Read >
Author: Dick Weinberger

ICD-10 Will Bring One-To-One Equivalents, But Still Watch Out

As we get ready to embrace ICD-10 Codes, many of you might be dreading the transition. But rest assured. Many a time you'll find simple one-to-one relationships between old and new codes. That is the case for hyperplasia; but even then you need to stay al... Read >
Author: James Smith

Ways to Boost your Hemoccult Test Coding

If you want to keep the money coming for in-office examination of fecal occult blood test (FOBT), you should train eyes on the difference between three hemoccult codes and their purpose. Here's a scenario: A 60-year old patient presented in the offic... Read >
Author: James Smith

ICD-9 2011 Solves Partial Removal Stumper

When you cannot get all of a splinter out, there will be a new diagnosis code series that'll tell you the story. Family Physicians are familiar with foreign body removal that gets only a part of the object - and come this fall, they will have a diagnosis ... Read >
Author: James Smith

Surgical Coding: Heed These Hernia Bundling Rules

Did you factor in a foreign body removal code by any chance? Question: During an open hernia repair for a reducible umbilical hernia, the surgeon detects a sizeable gallstone embedded in the omentum extending into the preperitoneal fat and he excises th... Read >
Author: Nancy

ICD-9 2010 brings more options for brain injury coding

CT scan: Subdural haemorrhage caused by trauma The latest edition of ICD-9 coding changes went into effect from Oct. 1, last year; As such, you need to adjust your system to reflect some new diagnosis codes for special neurological screenings to ensure ... Read >
Author: Leigh

Pediatric coding: Code 799.82 for dicey ALTE diagnosis

We have stepped into the new year with a bang alright, but we also have lots of challenges coming our way. One, would be mastering all the 2010 ICD-code changes affecting your specialty. 2010 ICD-9 code changes make life easier for you in a lot many wa... Read >
Author: James Smith

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