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    Wiki Z00.00 for full skin check

    We have a patient who wants us to use Z00.00 as the diagnosis for her annual skin check. I always thought that this hurts the patient because they can only have one Z00.00 per year and they need to use it for their annual physical with their PCP. Am I correct about this? Apart from that, is...
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    Wiki To bill Preventative or Not to bill Preventative???

    I'm running into issues billing for several of my sites... The doctors will have the CC as "follow-up" or "routine" sometimes even "dm check 6-months" and there is always a full workup but the doctor puts like, 7-10 diagnosis codes in there, usually insignificant things like HTN, DM, obesity...
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    Wiki DX for labs ordered during preventive visit

    Office discussion: Patient is schedule for their annual well/preventive visit. No abnormal findings. Doctor simply puts Z00.00 on the order for the lab. Do you query the physician to have them specify diagnosis/ICD -10 since Z00.00 is not a covered diagnosis for the specific labs that are...
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