Question: When encounter notes indicate that a patient is suffering from a post-traumatic headache, what is the proper ICD-10-CM code for the condition? Iowa Subscriber Answer: Your code choice depends on two pieces of information you don’t list in your [...]
Question: A 27-year-old patient who is 40 weeks pregnant presented to the provider to excise a lesion from the patient’s nose with an excised diameter of 2.0 cm. They intend to do an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT) for minimal scarring but [...]
Discover which code pairs are now open to separate payment. Medicare recently added more than 700 National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) Procedure-to-Procedure practitioner edits that apply to lab coding, and the proprietary laboratory analyses (PLA) codes are the star of [...]
Question: A 27-year-old patient who is 40 weeks pregnant presented The provider excises a lesion from the patient’s nose with an excised diameter of 2.0 cm. They intend to do an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT) for minimal scarring but wait for [...]
Consider the ulcer’s type and condition upon admission. Encounters involving non-pressure ulcers are a common occurrence in a podiatrist’s work. However, the frequent contact with these conditions does not necessarily guarantee their accurate reporting and reimbursement. Below we will take [...]
Question: The otolaryngologist excises a lesion from the patient’s nose with an excised diameter of 2.0 cm. They intend to do an adjacent tissue transfer (ATT) for minimal scarring but wait for the pathology report to determine if the lesion is [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that a patient suffers from “rheumatoid carditis w/RA, R shoulder.” I’m at a loss here; can you help me choose a diagnosis code for this shorthand? Illinois Subscriber Answer: This one is tricky, as you’ll need to grapple [...]
Question: I’ve read several articles about researchers analyzing eye scans with AI to detect heart disease, diabetes, strokes, and high blood pressure. Are researchers using AI and eye scans to detect other conditions, as well? Florida Subscriber Answer: Researchers are exploring the [...]
Medical terminology will help you code these conditions more easily. Your podiatrist is likely to see patients with a variety of foot and ankle ulcers. In Podiatry Coding Alert Volume 15, Number 4, we looked at code choices for pressure [...]
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 [...]
