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Diagnosis Coding:

Use These M1024 Tips To Get Your Rightful Reimbursement

Published on Wed Apr 20, 2011

Does your software need a tune-up? If you miss getting a diagnosis code into M1024, it could decrease your Medicare reimbursement. Make certain you're completing M1024 correctly with the following tips from attorney and coding expert Lisa Selman-Holman of Selman-Holman & Associates and CoDR -- Coding Done Right in Denton, Texas. 1. First and most importantly, avoid excessive use of V codes in M1020/M1022 which will lessen the need to complete M1024, Selman-Holman urges. If you do list a V code in the primary or secondary diagnosis slots, make sure that it is correct and not unnecessary. For example: Some common inappropriate uses of V codes include listing V58.6x (Long term [current] drug use) codes as primary and reporting V58.3x (Attention to surgical dressings and sutures) codes when the wound is complicated. Hint: You'll generally list an aftercare V code as primary when providing aftercare, but any additional V codes that [...]
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