Hypertension complicating pregnancy childbirth and the puerperium (642)

Learn how you’ll report intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy as of October 1. Although you may think a handful of new intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) codes may mean that this year’s ICD-10-CM update doesn’t offer you much to learn, you [...]

Learn when you can report 73120 and 73140 together. Locating the correct hand or finger fracture code in the ICD-10-CM code set can feel difficult, especially when you need to account for guidelines, which bones were injured, and the extent [...]

This guide to MIPS reporting and pulmonology-specific Quality Measures will maximize your 2019 reimbursement bonus CMS’ Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) is one of the single largest overhauls to Medicare since its inception, and months after its announcement, many physicians [...]

Overlooking the underlying cause can put your bottom line in jeopardy. Infections or dislocations in the replaced hip can happen — which means you have to know how to reflect these situations in your claims. Our experts break down how [...]

Therapy episodes would get reimbursed less. If your claims are dominated by episodes with high therapy, no recent hospital stays, or patients with behavioral health conditions such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or drug addiction, Medicare’s draft for HH PPS payment [...]

Don’t miss this Excludes1 note underneath M25.6. If you’re used to reporting 719.5x right now, then you should know that your stiffness in joint NEC codes explode after October 1. ICD-9-CM Codes: Currently, you should report these codes with: 719.50, [...]

Question: Doctor orders blood pressure (BP) check at our nurse’s station. The diagnosis is 642.03 (Antepartum benign essential hypertension). I’m aware that there are some instances we can bill for certain visits/problems outside of the global package, but I’m not sure [...]

Question: Our new patient is returning home after hip replacement surgery to treat a fractured left hip. We are providing aftercare for the surgery as well as physical therapy. He also has a methicillin-resistant staph infected stage III pressure ulcer on [...]

Hint: You can report complications before or after delivery. You can receive increased reimbursement when your ob-gyn provides additional visits outside of the normal global ob package, but you’ll have to make sure you’ve coded high-risk or complicated obstetrical care [...]

Never skip the underlying cause, infections, or dislocations. If you’re overlooking the underlying cause for the replacement surgery and any infections or dislocations in the replaced hip, then you could be leaving precious dollars your physician ethically deserves on the [...]