Coding Update:
Improve Your Tennis Elbow Claims Score: Make Reach, Repair, and Reattachment Your Winning Strategy
Published on Mon Apr 11, 2011
Tactics help you recoup deserved pay for 24357-24359.Tennis elbow claims faults can wreak your reimbursement for these services. But you can clean up your method if you can spot in the note how the surgeon reached the elbow tendon and whether the tendon was released or repaired. By doing so, you stand to gain your full earned pay for codes 24357, 24358, and 24359, which is $437.27, $514.74, and $647.59, respectively.Review Structures TreatedWhen you are confident in your elbow anatomy knowledge, you'll have a better chance of understanding where the operative note is directing you. The codes are simple and can easily be applied if you are reading correct. "Coding these procedures became much easier when CPT condensed the codes from the previous five down to the current three," confirms Heidi Stout, BA, CPC, COSC, PCS, CCS-P, Coder on Call, Inc., Milltown, New Jersey and orthopedic coding division director, The [...]
