You Be the Coder:
Clear Up Foot FBR Dilemma
Published on Tue Dec 10, 2019
Question: My podiatrist’s notes indicate that a new patient with an injured foot had a foreign body removed from her heel. The podiatrist performed a subcutaneous foreign body removal (FBR) from the patient’s foot after a level-two evaluation and management (E/M) service. I originally thought I should report 10121, but another coder in my office said this was incorrect. Which [...]