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[QUOTE="rlh27, post: 397810, member: 89824"]Can you give additional information about the indications for the surgery...I didn't see i77.4 listed in the LCD, but I saw diagnosis codes for diseases tha... [ Read More ]
If you go to the [B]Index > Osteoarthritis > wrist[/B] , it will tell you to look for [B]M19.03- [/B]
If you check that in the Tabular list [B]M19.03- Primary Osteoarthritis, wrist [/B]
M19.031 - P... [ Read More ]
I'm in jurisdiction J8 our mac has retired the LCD for 99183, also CMS states there is no NCD for 99183. but I have been using the following guide from AAPC coder to code and charge for a physician th... [ Read More ]
[url]http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/H00-H59/H25-H28/H26-[/url]
H26Other cataract
H26.0Infantile and juvenile cataract
H26.00Unspecified infantile and juvenile cataract
H26.001…… right eye... [ Read More ]
There's also this:
[url]http://www.tmhp.com/HTMLmanuals/TMPPM/2008/2008%20TMPPM-07-039.html[/url]
What I can tell you about them, is that TMHP is weird about modifiers. For example, we bill testing f... [ Read More ]
Here is a list of CPT codes and Diagnoses that are medically necessary for those CPT codes from the Medicare website, Hope you can use one of those DX's.
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Is modifier 95 required on every code furnished via telehealth After reading Take the Complexity Out of Behavioral Health Coding in the June 2022 issue of Healthcare Business Monthly a reader asked If... [ Read More ]
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