In addition to axing some items at followup, CMS will also add a few. Just when you are getting used to the significant changes in OASIS-D, it’s time to start thinking about the next update to the patient assessment tool. [...]
Remember to include the seventh character for even more specificity. Whiplash can be a fairly common condition for pain management specialists to treat. The current ICD-9 structure offers multiple diagnosis options, and ICD-10 will introduce even more in October. Start [...]
Extended 7-digit codes will bring even more specificity. Millions of people suffer neck and back injuries due to whiplash each year, making it a fairly common condition for pain management specialists to treat. The current ICD-9 structure offers multiple diagnosis [...]
Remember to include the seventh character for even more specificity. Whiplash can be a fairly common condition for pain management specialists to treat. The current ICD-9 structure offers multiple diagnosis options, and ICD-10 will introduce even more in October. Start [...]
As part of an extensive series of reviews on how well Medicare contractors handle Medicare claims from ambulatory surgical centers, the HHS Office of Inspector General has taken the measure of six carriers’ processing of multiple procedure claims. The results, [...]
Report cerumen removal with E/M if you can prove the services are separate Patients who require cerumen removal services in your ED present several coding challenges: You will first have to decide if the encounter satisfies the requirements for reporting 69210 [...]
Medical Coding and billing - Physicians often perform sacroiliac (SI) joint injections to help diagnose or cure SI joint pain. You have to know whether the physician performed the injection to diagnose SI joint dysfunction or to treat joint pain [...]
Ever feel like you can't catch a break? According to one durable medical equipment regional carrier, DME suppliers continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. So if the same problems keep cropping up all the time, it [...]
" Recent studies have estimated that 10 to 30 percent of those who suffer from chronic low back pain may have sacroiliac (SI) joint dysfunction. SI joint dysfunction often is related to a traumatic injury, such as falling and landing [...]
This is the time of year when PM&R practices begin seeing many more patients with medial epicondylitis (726.31), rotator cuff tendinitis (726.10), plantar fasciitis (728.71) and low back strain (846.9) and that means golf season has arrived again. Many of [...]
