avacchelli
New
Maternal Fetal Medicine. When coding an ultrasounds I have the following questions:
1. Does the "test indications" section need to be specific to the actual condition? i.e. You know a patient is HIV positive but you use the term "maternal infectious disease" on the report and the provider choices the electronic record to state HIV Z21.
2. Does the dx on the report need to match the claim sent to insurance carriers exactly? Again, HIV on the claim that goes out to insurance - Infectious disease indicated on the on the report no mention of HIV.
3. POS 11-Office are you allowed to code from the entire patient record or does the report need to the only source to code from.
4. If you can review that patients entire record and find an existing condition like HIV code it without amending the report if there is no other specific dx (same as question 1 basically but coder finding not provider dx choosing)
1. Does the "test indications" section need to be specific to the actual condition? i.e. You know a patient is HIV positive but you use the term "maternal infectious disease" on the report and the provider choices the electronic record to state HIV Z21.
2. Does the dx on the report need to match the claim sent to insurance carriers exactly? Again, HIV on the claim that goes out to insurance - Infectious disease indicated on the on the report no mention of HIV.
3. POS 11-Office are you allowed to code from the entire patient record or does the report need to the only source to code from.
4. If you can review that patients entire record and find an existing condition like HIV code it without amending the report if there is no other specific dx (same as question 1 basically but coder finding not provider dx choosing)