POSTPARTUM AND POST ABORTION DIAGNOSES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES DRG Code 769

Report 92943 and +92944 for chronic total occlusion. In the session “Cardiovascular Pathophysiology Diagnostics and Therapeutic Procedures” during Regional HEALTHCON 2022, speaker Tyler Griffeth, CPC, CPRC, coding consultant at Intermountain Healthcare, discussed many types of cardiovascular diseases and treatment options. [...]

Demo enrollees averaged 64 days in MCCM. Medicare officials will be making major decisions about whether hospice services still must go to patients who forego curative care based on the Medicare Care Choices Model demonstration project. Take a look at [...]

Nearly 40 percent of demo enrollees also receive HHA services. Whether Medicare will move forward with a concurrent care option for hospice-eligible beneficiaries may eventually depend on the statistics coming out of the Medicare Care Choices Model demonstration project. Take [...]

Fourth digit adds detail. No matter the details, you have just one code to describe newborn respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) under ICD-9 — 769 (Respiratory distress syndrome in newborn). That will change once ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. 1 [...]

Fourth digit adds detail. No matter the details, you have just one code to describe newborn respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) under ICD-9 — 769 (Respiratory distress syndrome in newborn).   That will change once ICD-10 goes into effect on Oct. [...]

Question: Our pediatrician admits a newborn baby with severe respiratory distress and we reported 99468. The baby is discharged six days later, but the physician has to admit the baby two weeks after (at 22 days old), critically ill with [...]

Discharge and readmission can be reported twice. If you’re not clear on the changes in CPT® verbiage preceding the inpatient neonatal critical care code 99468, particularly when it comes to readmissions, you could be reducing your reporting accuracy. The issue [...]

Hint: ARDS in the newborn should be reported with a different code as in ICD-9. When your pulmonologist assesses patients for dyspnea, one of the diagnosis that you might come across is acute pulmonary distress syndrome (ARDS) – so it [...]

Discharge and readmission? You can report twice. When CPT® makes adjustments, the reason is normally to clear up confusion and outline the details about coding policy. However those adjustments sometimes result in more head-scratching. This has been the case with [...]

Yes, you can sometimes look past newborn critical care codes. Coding for newborn care in the hospital is usually fairly straightforward, whether the baby is considered a normal newborn or one who needs special care. Confusion can arise, however, if [...]