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101. 77071: A Small Status-Indicator Change Could Cost You $46 Per Claim
April 28, 2011
You never know what every new quarter will unfold as far as Medicare updates are concerned. This month you need to ensure your practice is up to speed on physician fee schedule news.
New: The bilateral surgery indicator for 77071 (Manual application of stress carried out by doctor for...
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102. Internal Medicine Coding: Friction Burns Are Still Considered Burns
April 27, 2011
In a particular scenario, a patient presented with multiple friction burns from a treadmill. He had partial thickness friction burns on one hand, both ankles, and one foot. He had a full thickness friction burn to down to the fascia on two of his fingers. The internist cleaned all burns with surcl...
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103. CCI 17.1: Include injections in DLEK & DSEK coding
April 27, 2011
Practically, all of the nerve block injection codes are now bundled into endothelial keratoplasty
So does your ophthalmology practice bill for anesthesia injections along with endothelial keratoplasty (EK) procedures? If so, with effect from April 1 this year, you need to think bef...
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104. ICD-10: For Sensorineural Hearing Loss, exercise H code use
April 26, 2011
How would you go about second-time diagnostic analysis?
The most frequent diagnosis for cochlear implant patients is 389.10 (Sensorineural hearing loss, unspecified). This condition is normally due to lesions of the cochlea and the auditory division of the eighth cranial ner...
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105. E/M Coding: Learn The Importance Of The Eight-Hour Rule
April 26, 2011
Clue: Don't use discharge code 99217 in all observation situations.
Oftentimes, deciding on what observation code to use can be a challenge, more so because you have to look into two sets of this type. While one set (99234-99236) pertains to the care provided on a single ca...
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106. Otolaryngolology coding : Four FAQs to help your Cochlear Implant Coding
April 25, 2011
Find out why physicians have limited use of available CPT codes
While reporting for audiologist's services, do not forget that Medicare prohibits audiologists from billing for treatment services. They're allowed to bill for diagnostic services only. But then otolaryngologis...
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107. Anesthesia Coding: Convert To Units for Reporting More Minutes
April 25, 2011
While billing for code 01967, sometimes the time is over 999 minutes. In one instance, the time was 1,080 minutes. As such, may I bill the anesthesia as: 01967 (900 minutes in the units field) plus 01967 (180 minutes in the units field), or should I report it some other way?
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108. For post-op disease counseling, consider V58.42
April 21, 2011
There is this patient with a prostate cancer diagnosis who had an office visit during the post op period to discuss treatment options (not for surgical follow up). So can I bill for this office visit during the global period, and what diagnosis code should I use to indicate that the service...
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109. Differentiate facility's documentation rules from surgeon's report
April 21, 2011
You should concentrate on your physician's thorough note.
Here's a myth: When your surgeon carries out surgery in a hospital, you should make it a point to coordinate your coding with the hospital's records.
Reality check: Even though that rule is smart for s...
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110. Updated your 2011 cpt modifier options? If not, do it now!
April 20, 2011
A general surgery coder asked, "We read lots of information about CPT 2011 code changes, however are there any modifier changes we should be aware of?
In 2011, it is important to know about a few new modifiers, as well as some revisions to existing CPT modifiers. For instance, three exis...
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