General Surgery Coding Alert
Master General Surgery Changes -- Start Today
Put this at-a-glance tool in your coding toolbox for the new year. Avoid denials in 2011 by using this chart to quickly grasp the CPT code changes affecting your general surgery practice. CPT 2011 provides some timely changes to fill some coding "gaps" that may have troubled your practice. "You'll find new codes to help you accurately report services that didn't have clear coding before now, such as hiatal hernia repair and endovascular revascularization," says Marcella Bucknam, CPC, CCS-P, CPC-H, CCS, CPC-P, COBGC, CCC, manager of compliance education for the University of Washington Physicians Compliance Program in Seattle. Keep this chart close by to use as a handy reference tool throughout the year.
General Surgery Coding Alert
- CPT 2011:
New 49418 and Related Codes Expand Your Catheter Insertion Choices
Plus: 37220-37235 add specificity to your revascularization coding.CPT 2011 is just around the corner and [...] - CPT 2011 Clip and Save Chart:
Master General Surgery Changes -- Start Today
Put this at-a-glance tool in your coding toolbox for the new year.Avoid denials in 2011 [...] - Lesion Removal:
11443 or 11441? Measure Correctly and Add $54 to This Excision Claim
Timing is everything for coding accuracy.Waiting for the pathologist to measure an excised lesion could [...] - Mind your Modifiers:
62 Is Your Ticket for Clean Co-surgeon Claims
Match up surgeon claims or risk missed payment. Watch your surgeon's op note for second [...] - You Be the Coder:
44120 Has Two Ends
Question: The surgeon performed a small bowel resection, placing bowel clamps at proximal and distal [...] - Reader Questions:
Modifier 80 Allows Assistant Surgeon Coding
Question: Our surgeon assisted another surgeon from a different practice on a laparoscopic partial colon [...] - Reader Questions:
Bill Consultations With a Referral
Question: When another doctor refers a patient to our surgeon, who meets with the patient [...] - Reader Questions:
99441- 99443: The Hard Truth about Phone Call Pay
Question: Another physician told my surgeon that he's receiving payment from his contractor for telephone [...]
