Primary Care Coding Alert

Your lab coding just got more specific thanks to V72.6's expansion. Avoid denials for birth date, well check mismatches and truncated lab codes by making these changes to your ICD-9 2010 coding. But preventing rejections isn't the only reason to start using these new codes."Even when a V code is not necessary on a claim, or with a procedure, adding these can allow your practice to monitor and track patients in a whole new way, which could very well end up increasing revenue in a most appropriate fashion," says Kris Cuddy,CPC, CIMC, of KC Medical Consulting Services in DeWitt, Mich. Explain Missed, Late Vaccine With V Code You now have a tool to use to alert a patient she's past due for an immunization. In your practice, you can use V15.83 (Personal history of underimmunization status) to track patients' delinquencies or lapses in immunizations, Cuddy says. Doing so may allow [...]