Internal Medicine Coding Alert
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Internal Medicine Coding Alert
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You CAN Go Home Again (to the Patient's Home,That Is) and Get Paid
House calls may not be as common as they were a century ago, but Medicare [...] - ICD-9:
Don't Let Your Diabetes Coding Get Out of Control
Diagnosis coding for diabetes may seem straightforward, but even experienced coders can get tripped up [...] - You Be the Coder:
Modifiers With Joint Injections
Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the [...] - Get Paid for Prolonged Home Visits
When patients require longer-than-normal physician visits, you can use prolonged services codes 99354-99357 with the [...] - Rule Out Other Types of Diabetes
Coders need to pay special attention to information recorded in the chart to ensure that [...] - News Brief:
Medicare Covers Foot Exams for Diabetics With LOPS
Medicare will now pay for regular foot examinations for diabetic patients who have been diagnosed [...] - Reader Question:
Repeat Treatment of Wart
Question: A physician's assistant in the office saw a patient for a plantar wart. The [...] - Reader Question:
Discharge of Dead Patients
Question: The local nursing home sent me notification to go there and complete charts on [...] - Reader Question:
Hospital Versus Outpatient Code
Question: We sent a patient to the hospital to have a blood transfusion, and then [...] - Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
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