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Coding the 6th character is a must. When your general surgeon treats a patient with a pressure ulcer, you will encounter numerous options as you strive to refine the diagnosis and procedure coding. We’ll look at one case together, reviewing [...]

Question: I am attempting to identify the appropriate ICD-10-CM code that would justify the medical need for a skin graft procedure on a significant pressure ulcer located on the left ankle. The provider’s notes during the graft procedure do not [...]

Find out how AI can identify brain injuries from MRI exams. Providers order and use imaging scans to view inside the patient’s body to diagnose unseen conditions and screen for diseases, but human physicians can miss abnormalities while reviewing the [...]

Category III codes could lead to future reimbursement. Physicians use imaging scans to screen for diseases and diagnose conditions that are hidden to the naked eye. Yet, even with the diagnostic imaging technology, some abnormalities may escape human detection. In [...]

Radiology accounts for 75 percent of AI medical algorithms. With imaging scans, physicians can view inside the patient’s body to screen for diseases and diagnose unseen conditions. However, as detailed as imaging scans can be, there can be areas that [...]

Question: I’m trying to determine the correct ICD-10-CM code to establish medical necessity for a skin graft to a large pressure ulcer of the left ankle. There’s no staging documented by the provider in the notes during performance of the graft. [...]

Know these updates to juvenile osteochrondosis and arthritis coding. 2021 ICD-10-CM changes relevant to orthopedic coding will go into effect Oct. 1, 2020. Use the next few weeks to become comfortable with the changes before you need to implement them [...]

Code sets get major upgrade in new Dx book. ICD-10 2021 will feature three major revisions to codes representing juvenile osteochondrosis (JO), and more than a dozen new codes to provide a more detailed picture of the patient’s injury via [...]

A hereditary condition and transplant complications may face coding changes. Corneal dystrophy and corneal transplant complications could both be subjected to major overhaul come October 2019 as part of the ICD-10 update. Proposals from the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee [...]

Hereditary corneal dystrophies, corneal transplant complications might be coded differently if proposals are finalized. Coding for corneal dystrophy and complications after corneal transplant could be set for a big overhaul as part of the Oct. 1, 2019 ICD-10 update. That’s [...]