Question: How should I bill for a routine exam with the diagnosis post-keratoplasty in the right eye, and keratoconus in the left eye? What would the correct diagnosis codes be? Alabama Subscriber Answer: Before Oct. 1, 2015, report ICD-9 code 371.60 (Keratoconus, [...]
Question: How should I report a right heart catheterization with heart biopsy? The patient, who has trisomy 21, had a heart transplant, and the biopsy is performed each year. Codify Member Answer: For the heart biopsy, report 93505 (Endomyocardial biopsy). [...]
Question: Our patient has type I diabetes. He is on insulin and has diabetic chronic kidney disease (CKD) and hypertension (HTN). He was referred to our agency for aftercare following a kidney transplant for end stage renal disease. The physician [...]
Question: Is there a diagnosis code that Medicare is looking for specifically for reimbursement of corneal topography? They used to pay with a V-code only. Now it seems they will reject V-codes one time and pay another. We only bill [...]
Question: How should we code peripheral polyneuropathy which was caused by a patient's diabetes if the patient no longer has diabetes? For example, if the patient had a pancreas transplant to treat her diabetes. I'm not sure if I should [...]
Question: Can I bill 94016 with a complete set of PFTs including 94060? I know of a few offices billing these codes together and getting paid for both.Maine SubscriberAnswer: Yes, you can bill 94016 (Patient-initiated spirometric recording per 30-day period [...]
Watch your sequencing or pay the price. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is keeping an eye on your V code use. Make sure you know when you must list a V code versus when listing one in M1020/M1022 [...]
Watch your sequencing or pay the price. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is keeping an eye on your V code use. Make sure you know when you must list a V code versus when listing one will trip [...]
Question: What are the rules are for coding corneal topography? I can't find a CPT® code for it. Should I just use 92499? The corneal topography was done on a keratoconus patient. California Subscriber Answer: For corneal topography, report 92025 [...]
Question: What are the rules are for coding corneal topography? I can't find a CPT® code for it. Should I just use 92499? The corneal topography was done on a keratoconus patient.Delaware SubscriberAnswer: For corneal topography, report 92025 (Computerized corneal [...]
