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Use These 3 Tips to Shore Up Your X-Ray View Expertise

Published on Thu Dec 27, 2012

Plus, boost your documentation interpretation using the bonus tip. Keeping track of views is key to proper X-ray coding. The following tips can help you brush up on the Medicare essentials of when to add views together to find a single code, when to report multiple codes, and what to do when you have more than the “minimum” number of views. Tip 1: Add Views From Multiple Same-Day Services To choose the proper code, you should add all the views performed of the same site and report the most comprehensive code, says Laureen Jandroep, OTR, CPC, CPCEMS, CPC-H, a CodeRyte coding analyst and senior instructor for New Jersey-based www.CodingCertification.org. This holds true even if the patient leaves and returns to radiology on the same day, she adds. Example: The radiologist interprets a two-view skull X-ray taken at 10:00 and later that day interprets a single-view skull X-ray taken at 11:00. [...]
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