Procedure Coding:
Report E/M or Simple Incision for These Tick Encounters
Published on Wed Jun 20, 2018
Look to anatomical site, not creature, for Dx coding. If your patients live in, or will be vacationing in, New England, the mid-Atlantic states, the upper Midwest, Washington, Oregon, or Northern California this summer, and if those patients are going to spend any time outdoors, then you might want to spend a few minutes brushing up on your tick removal [...]