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 [...]
Check for instrumentation, graft coding opportunities. When a patient needs a spinal fusion procedure, there are a variety of techniques and approaches that your surgeon could use. Which one you choose will depend on how the notes represent the encounter. [...]
Question: The provider diagnosed post-traumatic headache. Is G44.3 the correct ICD-10 code for this condition? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Yes and no. The G44.3- (Post-traumatic headache) code is accurate, but not specific enough. Follow these instructions once you arrive at G44.3- in the [...]
Question: The provider diagnosed post-traumatic headache. Is G44.3 the correct ICD-10 code for this condition? Illinois Subscriber Answer: Yes and no. The G44.3- (Post-traumatic headache) code is accurate, but not specific enough. Follow these instructions once you arrive at G44.3- in the [...]
Question: The provider diagnosed post-traumatic headache. Is G44.3 the correct ICD-10 code for this condition? Wyoming Subscriber Answer: Yes and no. The G44.3- (Post-traumatic headache) code is accurate, but not specific enough. Follow these instructions once you arrive at G44.3- in the [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that after a level-three office evaluation and management (E/M) service for a new patient, the provider performed a right elbow arthroscopy with synovectomy. Final diagnosis was transient synovitis. I’m having trouble settling on a CPT® code because [...]
Don’t mess up this condition of payment. Smart home health agencies will lower their denial rates — and reimbursement losses — by targeting claims’ biggest threat: the face-to-face encounter. New medical review results from HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA [...]
Follow a few crucial tips to find the right diagnosis code. When diabetes leads to vision issues, patients are likely to come to your office more than once a year. For correct ICD-10-CM coding, you’ll have to know not only [...]
Question: The ED encounter notes indicate that the provider saw a patient for pain in her finger. After an E/M service that included low medical decision making (MDM) and an expanded problem focused history and exam, the provider diagnosed trigger [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that the provider saw a patient in the office for pain in her finger. After an evaluation and management (E/M) service that included low medical decision making (MDM) and lasted 27 minutes, the provider diagnosed trigger [...]
