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: 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 [...]
Notice of Admission claims using modifier KX when they shouldn’t are in one MAC’s crosshairs. The problem: Claims glitches early this year led to delays in new Home Health NOAs processing. HHAs could then use a KX modifier to request [...]
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 [...]
Choose procedure code with pathology report in hand. Integumentary procedures hold lots of snares for coders — from procedures codes to diagnosis codes to modifiers — and mistakes in these cases could cost your surgical practice significant pay. Let our [...]
Wait for the pathology result and get a big boost to your bottom line. A patient with a past history of skin cancer reports to your office with an actinic keratosis (AK) on his forehead that is approximately 0.7 cm [...]
1 NOA works for all subsequent periods of care — and also could wreck them. You’ve got about seven months to get the new Notices of Admission for home health payment up and running, or you’ll risk the entire reimbursement [...]
Yet another glitch is affecting the processing of no-pay Requests for Anticipated Payment and related claims. The problem: Claims may be inappropriately returning with Reason Code U5391, HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor Palmetto GBA says in its claims processing issues log. [...]
