General Surgery Coding Alert
Answer 'What? Where? Why?' To Corral Enterectomy Coding
General Surgery Coding Alert
- Small Intestine:
Answer 'What? Where? Why?' To Corral Enterectomy Coding
Don’t lose pay for additional resections. When you face your general surgeon’s op report for [...] - Glossary:
Decode Small Intestine Resections With These Terms
Your surgeons’ op reports might use a variety of terms for small intestine resection procedures, [...] - ICD-10:
C17 Mirrors 152 for Malignant Small Bowel
‘Other’ becomes ‘overlapping’. Although many diagnoses will become far more specific once ICD-10 goes into [...] - Practice Management:
Breeze Through HIPAA Audit With 5 Protocol Tips
Try your hand at internal audits first. Random and targeted HIPAA audits are making the [...] - ICD-10 Conventions:
Don't Sweat ICD-9 to ICD-10 Switch-- Many Rules Stay the Same
What you already know may surprise you. You should have a growing familiarity with specific [...] - You Be the Coder:
44141 Describes Temporary Colostomy
Question: Following a sigmoid colectomy with end-to-end anastomosis from descending colon to anterior wall of [...] - Reader Question:
19260 Captures Chest Wall Tumor Pay
Question: The surgeon dissects down through the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and latissimus dorsi muscle to [...] - Reader Question:
E/M Might Move from Office to ER
Question: The surgeon saw a patient in the office (99214), but later in the same [...] - Reader Question:
Distinguish EGD and PEG Procedures
Question: Should I code the following note as 43246?
- Reader Question:
Recognize Scar Revision Bundles
Question: During a breast biopsy, the surgeon also performed a scar revision involving multi-layered closure [...] - Reader Question:
Don't Forget 'E' Code for Gun Incident
Question: A patient presented to our clinic for excision of a foreign body from his [...]
