Radiology Coding Alert
Review Your Knowledge of the 2021 with Our Coding Quiz
Do you remember the big changes of the past year? The past 12 months were full of big coding and reimbursement changes. If you’re having trouble remembering all the major revisions, we’ve put together a fun quiz to give your memory a boost. As the calendar flips to 2022, see if you can remember three significant coding and billing changes from 2021. Test your memory and correctly answer the questions to start your new year off with a bang. Question 1: Effective Oct. 1, 2021, ICD-10-CM added several dorsopathy codes to a parent code to help increase specificity when diagnosing patients. What were they? Question 2: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Medicare Physician Fee Schedule final rule on Nov. 19, 2021. In the document, CMS finalized the proposal to remove National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) from select services. What radiologic service had its NCD removed for Calendar Year (CY) 2022? Question 3: Starting Jan. 1, 2022, CPT® added new codes that cover trabecular bone score (TBS) procedures. Can you list them all? Bonus: What are the differences between the TBS CPT® codes? Think you know the answers? Click here to know the Answers.
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