Infections specific to the perinatal period (771)

Don’t forget to additionally report causative organism. When reporting a diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI), you’ll have to look at documentation to see if your clinician has identified the site of infection to enable you to zero in on [...]

Don’t forget to additionally report causative organism for proper reporting. If you’re reporting a diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI), you’ll have to look at the documentation to see if your clinician has identified the site of the infection to [...]

‘Crossover’ patients see longest stays, highest costs. Nursing home residents receiving hospice services have become one of the feds’ favorite fraud hot spots, but that thinking may be misguided, a new study contends. Researchers at the Regenstrief Institute and the [...]

‘Crossover’ patients see longest stays, highest costs, study finds. Nursing home residents receiving hospice services have become one of the feds’ favorite fraud hot spots, but that thinking may be misguided, a new study contends. Researchers at the Regenstrief Institute [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You need to watch out about the kinds of reports you are preparing, as a former director of a mental healthcare provider found to her cost. The Department of Justice is frowning on all kinds of fudging. Miami-area resident Vanja [...]

Question: What is the correct way to bill 99391 and 17250 during the same encounter in the office? Does it require a modifier? California Subscriber Answer: You'll need to separate the services on your claim and, yes, you'll need a [...]

Question: A pediatrician cannot determine a newborn's gender. The physician contacts an endocrinologist and a geneticist and spends a lot of time with the parents. Later in the day, the newborn develops sepsis. The physician re-examines the baby, orders a [...]