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Published on Sat Jun 06, 2009

Youve nailed down a charts soft-tissue foreign body removal (FBR) support, and you can also justify an office visit when you see these items. Look for Evaluation, Removal Decision If the patient reports with a possible FB, and the physician has to evaluate the site and make a decision to attempt to remove the FB, you might be able to report 10120 and an E/M, says Kevin Solinsky, CPC, CPC-I, CPC-ED, president and CEO of Healthcare Coding Consultants LLC in Gilbert, Ariz. Think 25 on New, Maybe on Established There must be a separate, identifiable service in addition to the assessment and removal of the FB, says Linda Martien, CPC, CPC-H, coding specialist at National Healing Inc. in Boca Raton, Fla. If an FBR patient is new, the FP usually provides an E/M-25 in addition to the FBR. The FP might also provide a separate E/M-25 to established patients, says [...]
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