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I agree with the above two responses you received. The ICD-10 CM guidelines specifically state if you have a definitive condition that includes the symptom, the symptom is not listed separately. You c... [ Read More ]
So my Acupuncturist and I have been going back and forth on billing E/M codes for a year now. She recently "beefed" up her documentation and now I really feel stuck. As far as I am concerned the exa... [ Read More ]
ICD-10 code M51.16 states "with radiculopathy." If the patient has intervertebral disc displacement with just lumbago and not radiculopathy there is the code selection M51.26 Other intervertebral dis... [ Read More ]
Pam, are you billing a sublux code followed by a condition code? Example: for cervicalgia, code 739.1 and 723.1. Medicare requires the sublux code first. Does this help?... [ Read More ]
Hi! Looking for an accepted ICD-9 code for cervical radiculopathy. Novitas does not recognize 723.4. Hoping someone has a solution! Thanks!!... [ Read More ]
AngelaMehl, I wish I was in Oklahoma looking at that list! Our Ohio acceptable per the MCR LCD that I printed 3-13-15 is much smaller than your list.
720.1 Spinal Enthesopathy
723.9 Unsp musculosk d... [ Read More ]
I am in Oklahoma and 724.2 is a covered diagnosis for a trigger point in the lumbar spine. There are only a handful of covered diagnoses but another one I use is 729.1 myalgia and myositis, unspecifi... [ Read More ]
I am looking for additional references on coding acute on chronic pain. I have read everything I can possibly find, Advance articles, many threads here, but I am just not grasping it. Just when I th... [ Read More ]
If I have a patient that has torticollis and decreased neck flexion & rotation. Would I code both of these as separate diagnoses or is the decreased neck flexion & rotation covered under the 723.5 ICD... [ Read More ]
[QUOTE="sandraf, post: 334473, member: 243530"]I need help with the diagnoses for this pt.
1. Pseudoarthrosis at C6-7
2. Status post C6-7 anterior cervical diskectom and fusion.
3. Stenosis.
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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 ]
DOCUCON provides answers and solutions for CDI specialists and those considering a CDI career. AAPC concluded its clinical documentation improvement CDI conference DOCUCON today. Healthcare business p... [ Read More ]