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Pediatric Coding Alert

Revenue Booster:

Capture All Your Work When Treating Kids Who Have Special Healthcare Needs

Published on Thu Feb 16, 2012

Diabetes, ADD, and asthma aren't always an E/M-only visit. Collect for your other services as well with these tips.Stop missing opportunities to bring in extra payment when you perform care above and beyond an E/M service when treating children who have special needs. This quick primer will make sure you're all set to collect everything you document when seeing your patients.Keep Continuum of Care in Mind With ADDYou can capture the initial service and ongoing visits for attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), if you code based on a coding continuum of care.Diagnosis, maintenance, interval checks and reassessment of ADD/ADHD with an established patient can be nurse-only, brief, or involved-physician visits. You'll start out when the pediatrician diagnoses a patient with ADD (314.00, Attention deficit disorder; without mention of hyperactivity) or ADHD (314.01, ... with hyperactivity) by typically looking at a high-level E/M service, such as [...]
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