• 1 Use Encounter Notes to Decide Between Vent Management, E/M

• 2 Prove Patient's Critical State Before Coding 99291

• 3 Stop Observing 25-Percent Rule for Modifier 22

• 4 Reader Questions: Gastric Aspiration Calls for 91105

• 5 Reader Questions: Ignore Location on Observation Services

• 6 Reader Questions: Include I&D in Excision

• 7 Reader Questions: Payers Consider Plug Removal Part of Intubation

• 8 Reader Questions: Meet 'Moderate' Guidelines for Sedation Coding

• 9 Reader Questions: Ease Compound Drug Coding With J7620

• 10 Reader Questions: Remember to Note Every Diabetic Manifestation

• 11 You Be the Coder: Blood Patch Epidurals