Find out if you need to report activity codes. Snow, ice, and cold temperatures can contribute to unexpected injuries that could land patients in your podiatrist’s office. Revenue Cycle Insider has pulled together three unique cases that you could see [...]
Remember the differences between urge and stress incontinence. Primary care practitioners (PCPs) are often a patient’s first stop for healthcare concerns, and many would rather stick with their PCP than have to see several different specialists. As coders in primary [...]
Remember the differences between urge and stress incontinence. Primary care practitioners (PCPs) are often a patient’s first stop for healthcare concerns, and many would rather stick with their PCP than have to see several different specialists. As coders in primary [...]
Do you know why the surgeon would perform amygdalohippocampectomy? When a patient undergoes a craniectomy/craniotomy, the scramble is on for coders to choose the correct surgical code to represent the procedure. Some craniectomy/craniotomy procedures are performed almost exclusively for a [...]
Hint: Rely on the Alphabetic Index for one common corneal condition. While the ICD-10-CM coding choices for many ocular diagnoses are straightforward, some conditions can prove more challenging because the condition occurs less frequently or because the coding rules can [...]
See if you can zero in on the best-suited codes for each scenario. While coding for a significant portion of ocular diagnoses is relatively straightforward, there are always a few outliers that are more challenging. Familiarizing yourself with rare conditions [...]
Question: Several patients have come into our practice for their annual flu vaccines. Some of these patients haven’t received their most recent COVID-19 vaccine booster for which they are eligible. Providers in the practice will administer the COVID-19 vaccine booster if [...]
Question: During routine evaluation and management (E/M) visits, providers in our practice have asked patients about the patients’ COVID-19 vaccination status. Several patients have attested to either not being fully vaccinated or are not vaccinated at all for one reason [...]
Question: Some of our patients are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, some are unvaccinated, and others are somewhere in between. Is there a way to officially document someone’s vaccination status? Maryland Subscriber Answer: Yes, you can document a patient’s COVID-19 vaccination status with [...]
And take note of these new COVID-19 underimmunization codes. There’s a lot more to using the Z23 (Encounter for immunization) and Z28.- (Immunization not carried out and underimmunization status) codes than meets the eye. Here’s how you can navigate these [...]
