Please help! I work in a pediatric office. One of the providers wants to verify coding for Edinburgh maternal survey that is positive for depression. Sometimes they put an 'O' code that slips past billing when posting charges, which of course gets returned unprocessed.
As far as I am aware we code the survey and document mom needs to follow up with her PCP. The providers either want to use F53.0 (maternal depression) which I believe should only be used for mom. There is also Z63.79 " Stressful life events affecting family and household"
I am not sure we need to code anything for this, just the documentation. But being new to this type of practice I want to be sure.
Thanks in advance
As far as I am aware we code the survey and document mom needs to follow up with her PCP. The providers either want to use F53.0 (maternal depression) which I believe should only be used for mom. There is also Z63.79 " Stressful life events affecting family and household"
I am not sure we need to code anything for this, just the documentation. But being new to this type of practice I want to be sure.
Thanks in advance