Educating yourself about anatomy can help you pinpoint codes. Trigeminal and occipital nerve blocks for headache treatment are both common procedures for pain management specialists or neurologists. But do you understand the difference? Read on for the lowdown that will [...]
Focus on these differences to better pinpoint codes. Trigeminal and occipital nerve blocks for headache treatment are both common procedures for pain management specialists. But do you understand the difference? Read on for the lowdown that will help you better [...]
Hint: Use different ICD-10 code for herpetic trigeminal neuralgia. When your clinician arrives at a diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia, your reporting of the condition in ICD-10 will be very similar to the way you reported using ICD-9 codes. Even the [...]
Hint: Use different ICD-10 code for herpetic trigeminal neuralgia. When your clinician arrives at a diagnosis of trigeminal neuralgia, your reporting of the condition in ICD-10 will be very similar to the way you reported using ICD-9 codes. Even the [...]
Otitis externa is reported with a more generalized code choice. When reporting a diagnosis of herpes zoster, you have many codes from which to select, depending on the presence or absence of associated conditions or complications. You also have some [...]
Otitis externa is reported with a more generalized code choice. When reporting a diagnosis of herpes zoster, you have many codes from which to select, depending on the presence or absence of associated conditions or complications. You also have some [...]
Learn how to report these codes using these five examples.You may be faced with a situation where the neurological complication after an episode of herpes zoster may involve a nerve, a ganglion, or a segment of the spinal cord. And [...]
Report the myelopathy, ganglionitis, neuropathy, and unspecified neurological complications.When you're faced with a neurological complication after an episode of Herpes zoster, you'll need to know how to report it once ICD-10 comes into effect Oct. 1, 2013. Take our advice [...]
A one-on-one comparison of codes in ICD-9 and ICD-10 reflects the following changes in ICD-10 in codes for these conditions. See the chart below for a breakdown.Codes 053.10 and 053.19 in ICD-9 match to code B02.29. Codes 053.11 and 053.14 [...]
Report the myelopathy, ganglionitis, neuropathy, and unspecified neurological complications.You may be faced with a situation where the neurological complication after an episode of herpes zoster may involve a nerve, a ganglion, or a segment of the spinal cord. And you [...]
