We ran into this situation at our facility, too. I was using M85.89 as well and getting denials. When I researched it, I found the description really didn't match osteopenia, imho. This seems more lik... [ Read More ]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement Change Request (CR) 9252 on January 4, 2016, effective October 1, 2015.
[url]https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Lea... [ Read More ]
I just looked up pneumonia in SuperCoder and I get:
480-488 - PNEUMONIA AND INFLUENZA (480-488)
483 - Pneumonia due to other specified organism
482 - Other bacterial pneumonia
486 - Pneumonia organi... [ Read More ]