Wiki chronic pain codes

[adonnal]

I code for nursing home , assisted living ... visits. I was told that you can't use the chronic pain code of 338.29 for medicare reimbursement. Is that true and what should I use in place of it?

Second question, do you have to have 2 codes to submit a claim to medicare? i have been only putting 1 code on some claims.

Adonna

 

[ajs]

I code for nursing home , assisted living ... visits. I was told that you can't use the chronic pain code of 338.29 for medicare reimbursement. Is that true and what should I use in place of it?

Second question, do you have to have 2 codes to submit a claim to medicare? i have been only putting 1 code on some claims.

Adonna

You should code whatever is documented regardless of whether or not Medicare will reimburse for it. You only need one dx code on a claim, but you should put however many it takes to describe the encounter.

 

[adonnal]

coding question

Thanks for your help.