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Internal Medicine Coding Alert
2002 Newsletter
Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
Internal Medicine Coding Alert
Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation
Published on Tue Oct 01, 2002
Other Articles in this issue of
Internal Medicine Coding Alert
CPT:
You CAN Go Home Again (to the Patient's Home,That Is) and Get Paid
House calls may not be as common as they were a century ago, but Medicare [...]
ICD-9:
Don't Let Your Diabetes Coding Get Out of Control
Diagnosis coding for diabetes may seem straightforward, but even experienced coders can get tripped up [...]
You Be the Coder:
Modifiers With Joint Injections
Test your coding knowledge. Determine how you would code this situation before looking at the [...]
Get Paid for Prolonged Home Visits
When patients require longer-than-normal physician visits, you can use prolonged services codes 99354-99357 with the [...]
Rule Out Other Types of Diabetes
Coders need to pay special attention to information recorded in the chart to ensure that [...]
News Brief:
Medicare Covers Foot Exams for Diabetics With LOPS
Medicare will now pay for regular foot examinations for diabetic patients who have been diagnosed [...]
Reader Question:
Repeat Treatment of Wart
Question: A physician's assistant in the office saw a patient for a plantar wart. The [...]
Reader Question:
Discharge of Dead Patients
Question: The local nursing home sent me notification to go there and complete charts on [...]
Reader Question:
Hospital Versus Outpatient Code
Question: We sent a patient to the hospital to have a blood transfusion, and then [...]
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