General Surgery Coding Alert
Reader Questions:
Implement Mobile Device HIPAA Security
Published on Thu May 20, 2021
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Nail This Splenectomy Coding Scenario
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Here’s Why the Payer Impacts Your Prolonged Service Coding
Only outpatient codes take G2212 or +99217. Depending on your payer(s) for outpatient evaluation and [...] - You Be the Coder:
Distinguish GERD Esophageal Procedures
Question: Our surgeon performed a procedure to control the esophageal sphincter to treat a patient [...] - Reader Questions:
Decipher Breast Note for ‘Wide Excision’
Question: I’m coding an op report and the surgeon describes the breast procedure as “wide [...] - Reader Questions:
Respond to MAC Overpayment Claim
Question: We received a “demand letter” from our MAC claiming that we were overpaid. We [...] - Reader Questions:
Beware Separate Lymph Node
Question: Our surgeon removed tonsils and adenoids for a 6 year old patient. The op [...] - Reader Questions:
Implement Mobile Device HIPAA Security
Question: Could you give some tips to help secure our mobile devices, meet HIPAA requirements, [...]
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