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Utilizing the 2021 New E&M Outpatient Coding Guidelines, Please code this E&M
[U]Patient [/U]1: This established 2-year-old female presents with cough, nasal discharge, and fever. Cough onset was one... [ Read More ]
Sorry i totally read the diagnosis code wrong (pains of staring at a screen all day)
Any chance one of the following dx codes that do not support Medical Necessity are also included?
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[b]home[/b]
for me there are different types of home, you can call apartment as a home, condo as a home, a mobile home as a home "obviously", and so on.
it's appropriate to code Y92.002 for this case... [ Read More ]
That's what I thought until I reviewed the answer.
This is what it says:
Patient used a razor to cut himself in a suicide attempt while at home in the bathroom today.
I answered Y92.002 but the ans... [ Read More ]
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We've been trying to get a denial from Medicare for a couple patients that had Lipiflow so we can forward it to their secondary insurance. The code is 0207T (which is not covered by medicare) and I've... [ Read More ]
[B]Final Diagnosis[/B]: Missed abortion.
[B]HISTORY[/B]: This is a 22-year-old white female, gravida 1, para 0, at 14 weeks by dates, confirmed on ultrasound, with spotting only and nonviable intraute... [ Read More ]
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H26Other cataract
H26.0Infantile and juvenile cataract
H26.00Unspecified infantile and juvenile cataract
H26.001…… right eye... [ Read More ]
Wondering what new procedure codes the new year will bring Wonder no more CPT 2024 will include 153 new codes throughout the code book including the Evaluation and Management section several Surgery s... [ Read More ]
Youll find minimal changes to the Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative NCCI code files this fourth quarter 2023. The update effective Oct. 1 includes just three changes to code edits in both th... [ Read More ]
Former MedPAC commissioner cites agencies high profit margins. Home health agencies HHAs have been making a lot of noise to push back on the proposed rate cuts for 2024 and a Senate hearing has added ... [ Read More ]
Code descriptor revisions are about time. After the extensive changes CPT made to the evaluation and management EM codes and guidelines over the last few years youll be relieved to know that the EM ch... [ Read More ]
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