Pathology/Lab Coding Alert
Follow Changing Payment Trail for Your Lab
Pathology/Lab Coding Alert
- CPT® 2015 Toxicology:
Part 1: Hone Drug Coding With New Sections, Drug Lists
Find changes all the way to the chemistry section. No kidding — the CPT® 2015 [...] - ICD-10:
Screening Drug Test Orders Use Many Diagnoses
Get ready for new options later this year. When your lab performs a screening drug [...] - ICD-10 Prep
Remember that ICD-10 goes into effect Oct. 1 this year for Medicare, meaning that you’ll [...] - CPT® 2015 Toxicology:
Part 2: Focus on Methods to Direct Your Drug Code Choice
Know your specimen source, too. New CPT® sections and new drug lists that you read [...] - Physician Fee Schedule:
Follow Changing Payment Trail for Your Lab
The RVUs aren’t all you need to observe. As it turns out, things weren’t settled [...] - Reader Question:
Check for 'Repeat' or 'Bundle' Modifiers
Question: A physician ordered basic metabolic panel 80048 for a patient, and later in the same [...] - Reader Question:
Distinguish Sperm Motility, Viability
Question: How should we code a sperm viability test known as an Eosin Y test? Is [...] - You Be the Coder:
Expand Keratoderma Choices in ICD-10
Question: Our pathologist received a skin specimen and wrote the diagnosis as “porokaratotic lesion.” What is [...]
