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ICD-10 Must Tell Full Story for Bariatric Surgery

Published on Tue Mar 15, 2016

Question: When I’m billing for bariatric surgeries, I’m having problems with denials that seem to indicate a lack of medical necessity. The surgeon always documents morbid obesity, and I always code it. What could be the problem? Codify Subscriber Answer: You are correct that morbid obesity is often the first diagnosis required to demonstrate medical necessity for bariatric surgery. But ICD-10 coding [...]
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