This modifier tells Medicare that the service isn’t covered. If you need to estimate what to charge a Medicare patient when your ob-gyn performs a preventive service as well as an evaluation and management (E/M) service at the same visit, [...]
Take this three-scenario challenge to test your skills. To ethically maximize your ob-gyn practice’s bottom line, you need to know the difference between reporting an annual exam code versus beginning global maternal care. Take this coding challenge to see how [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that a patient has a solitary bone cyst on their shoulder. What is the best diagnosis code for this patient? Illinois Subscriber Answer: With the information you presented, you can get to M85.41- (Solitary bone cyst, shoulder). You [...]
Be cautious about what you use for your primary diagnosis. To ethically maximize your ob-gyn practice’s bottom line, you need to know the difference between reporting an annual exam code versus beginning global maternal care. Take this coding challenge to [...]
Be cautious about what you use for your primary diagnosis. To ethically maximize your ob-gyn practice’s bottom line, you need to know the difference between reporting an annual exam code versus beginning global maternal care. Take this coding challenge to [...]
Question: Encounter notes indicate that a patient has a solitary bone cyst on their shoulder. What is the best diagnosis code for this patient? Illinois Subscriber Answer: With the information you presented, you can get to M85.41- (Solitary bone cyst, shoulder). You [...]
Question: Recently, we had a newly pregnant patient come in for her preventative well-woman exam. We officially diagnosed her at that exam. Can I still report the patient’s annual exam? Ohio Subscriber Answer: Yes. The annual visit is what the patient was [...]
Be cautious about what you use for your primary diagnosis. To ethically maximize your ob-gyn practice’s bottom line, you need to know the difference between reporting an annual exam code versus beginning global maternal care. Take this coding challenge to [...]
Separate payment for nonhospice items gets more attention. A new joint report from the Department of Justice and HHS Office of Inspector General shows home health and hospice agencies remain firmly in the feds’ crosshairs. In the Health Care Fraud [...]
Draw the line between diabetes before pregnancy and gestational diabetes. So you know that a diabetic pregnant patient requires services that are separate from the global package and demand a higher level of management skill — but does your patient’s [...]
