Coding Strategies:
3 Crucial Strategies Improve Your Sleep Study Reporting
Published on Sun Nov 25, 2012
Hint: Confirm the stage of sleep and parameters recorded. You can improve your sleep study coding accuracy by watching three key areas. Here are some handy tips to help you to report these services and make your claims hassle free. 1. Differentiate Sleep Studies from Polysomnography Understanding subtle differences between sleep studies and polysomnography (PSG) will aid your code selection. "Sleep studies and polysomnography refer to a continuous and simultaneous monitoring and recording of various physiological and pathophysiological parameters of sleep for six or more hours with physician review, interpretation and report," says Mary Mulholland, MHA, RN, CPC, with the University of Pennsylvania Health System in Philadelphia. These studies will help your neurologist assess the patient for sleep disorders and the response to certain therapies (such as CPAP) initiated to overcome these disorders. Staging is your key: Note that polysomnography tests will usually require your neurologist to stage sleep with [...]