Plus: Period for non-billing before deactivation will get cut by half. Hospices aren’t the only provider types who have to worry about beefed up enrollment procedures in the newest home health rule. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services includes [...]
MFCUs recover more than $6 for every $1 spent on enforcement activities. Sometimes Medicare fraud cases get all the headlines, but the feds are focusing on Medicaid enforcement too. In its recently released strategic plan for 2020-2025, the HHS Office of [...]
Don’t forget you have 4 diagnoses now. When the otolaryngologist diagnoses sialoadenitis – inflammation of the salivary glands due to obstruction of the gland or a duct – you now have four codes to help report the condition more accurately. [...]
Don’t forget you have 4 diagnoses now. When the otolaryngologist diagnoses sialoadenitis – inflammation of the salivary glands due to obstruction of the gland or a duct – you now have four codes to help report the condition more accurately. [...]
Question: Our surgeon recently made the diagnosis of xerostomia. What ICD-10 code should I use to report this diagnosis that our surgeon made? Michigan Subscriber Answer: Xerostomia, or dry mouth, is a condition in which the salivary glands don’t produce enough saliva [...]
Question: A patient came to our office because of pain and swelling in the area of one salivary gland. The physical exam and imaging tests resulted to a diagnosis of “acute recurrent sialoadenitis.” I know the correct ICD-9 code is 527.2. [...]
Hint: Use other diagnosis codes for sialoadenitis and disturbance in salivary secretion. If your oral surgeon identifies the diagnosis as sialolithiasis, you will report the same ICD-10 code irrespective of which of the salivary glands or their duct is affected [...]
Question: A Medicare patient wants us to remove his SCS leads and battery because the system that he has is not eliminating his pain. Our physician tried to implant two new leads to see if it would help the pain, but [...]
Question: In a patient, who has been on chemotherapy, our physician has documented ‘dry mouth’ as a diagnosis. How can we report this condition? New Jersey Subscriber Answer: In ICD-9-CM, dry mouth is considered as a disturbance of salivary secretion. You [...]
Question: In a patient, who has been on chemotherapy, our physician has documented ‘dry mouth’ as a diagnosis. How can we report this condition? New Jersey Subscriber Answer: In ICD-9-CM, dry mouth is considered as a disturbance of salivary secretion. You report [...]
