Radiology Today: "Coding Headaches: Don’t Let New Rules Give You One"
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- February 4, 2009
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Most payers required the use of 2009 CPT codes beginning January 1. This article contains a summary of the most significant coding changes for radiology practices in the coming year.
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After fully reading RadiologyToday, under the ruleout the rule-out diagnosis. It stated that a Testing Facility IDTF should only code signs and symptons???? I was trained that at a testing facility we are to code only the findings. If a patient comes in for a dexa scan 77080 wth the diagnosis of 733.01, her last one performed was in 2007 and our finding revealed that osteo no longer exist, then I would code the signs and symptons that required the test. Is this correct???
After fully reading Radiology Today, under the rule out the rule-out diagnosis. It stated that a Testing Facility IDTF should only code signs and symptoms???? I was trained that at a testing facility we are to code only the findings. If a patient comes in for a Dexa scan 77080 with the diagnosis of 733.01, her last one performed was in 2007 and our finding revealed that osteo no longer exist, then I would code the signs and symptoms that required the test. Is this correct???