Question: A patient was referred to our pulmonology practice by their general practitioner (GP). The patient complained of shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing after exercising outdoors. During the history of present illness, the patient attested that they’ve never experienced [...]
Get to know how these new CMS proposed rules might affect your practice. Fee schedule changes to most evaluation and management (E/M) services have been relatively safe from CMS intervention over the past few years. As for 2019, however, it’s [...]
Hint: Proposal causes one pulmonary practice in our sample to lose $93,000 in one year. Pulmonology practices have been able to rest easy during the past few years’ worth of fee schedule changes, but this year may have thrown a [...]
Turn to op report for tumor site. As a pathology or lab coder, maybe you’ve sometimes wished for a different or more-specific diagnosis code to report a condition. Starting this fall, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) delivers. The [...]
Don’t forget: You’ll need to include an “x” placeholder for these T codes. You’ve got a bunch of new gynecology diagnoses to learn — such as, N35.92 (Unspecified urethral stricture, female). The clock is already ticking, because these codes go [...]
Hint: You’ll have lots more urethral stricture options. The next round of ICD-10-CM changes won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, but CMS has released information on new, revised, and deleted codes for the next year. Changes applicable to urology [...]
Myths lead to misdiagnoses — which can lead to chargebacks. You know that assigning the correct ICD-10 code is essential to your claim, but it’s possible that your pulmonology practice may still be falling prey to one of the many [...]
Question: A patient presents with a complication from a previous surgery which was a laparoscopy with lysis of endometriotic lesions (Laparoscopy with Omnicell laser ablation of endometriosis) and now has hemoperitoneum bleeding. Should I use CPT® code 58662 or use an [...]
Question: The patient is now having a complication from the previous surgery which was a laparoscopy with lysis of endometriotic lesions, (Laparoscopy with Omnicell laser ablation of endometriosis) hemoperitoneum bleeding. So I wanted to ask if I should use CPT® code [...]
Question: My provider did a tonsillectomy on a patient a couple weeks ago. The patient then came into the office during the global period of the tonsillectomy and had a cauterization of the throat done. I found code 42970 but am [...]
