Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
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Home Health ICD-9/ICD-10 Alert
- CODING HOW-TO:
TURN THE TABLE ON THERAPY CODING WITH NEW OFFICIAL CODING GUIDELINES
Look for V57.89 to become more popular.
News that you can no longer list some old [...] - CODING UPDATE:
YOUR V57.x CODING QUESTIONS ANSWERED
V57.x as secondary won't result in denied claims. Still scratching your head over the new [...] - You Be the Coder:
DON'T GET WOUND UP OVER TRAUMA
Question: We are providing daily wound care to a patient who fell and hit her [...] - CODING CHANGES:
DON'T RISK SCRUTINY OF LONG-TERM DRUG USE CLAIMS
RHHI questions medical necessity when V58.69 listed as primary.
If you're still reporting V58.6x (Long-term [current] [...] - READER QUESTIONS:
Report Late Effects After A Break In Service
Question: We have a patient who was admitted to home care due to a cerebrovascular [...] - READER QUESTIONS:
Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds
Question: Our patient has been recertified after 60 days due to a surgical wound not [...] - READER QUESTIONS:
Take The Pain Out Of Fracture Coding
Question: I have a patient with a traumatic hip fracture. Skilled nursing has been ordered [...] - READER QUESTIONS:
Stop Weakening Abnormality Of Gait Coding - READER QUESTIONS:
Fracture This Compression Assumption
Question: How should we code a compression fracture of the spine the patient sustained when [...] - READER QUESTIONS:
Bypass M0245 For Surgery Patient
Question: We have a patient with a long history of hypertension who just had coronary [...]
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