• 1 Three Tips Help Optimize Billing for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• 2 Case Study: Reason for Excision of Coccyx Determines Correct Code

• 3 Correction: Debridement

• 4 Reader Question: Partial Colectomy Code Describes Ileocolostomy

• 5 Reader Question: Excision of Facial Lipoma

• 6 Reader Question: Should Modifier -51 Be Used?

• 7 Reader Question: Endoscopy, Colonoscopy During Same Session

• 8 Reader Question: Subsequent Observation Day Billed as Established Outpatient Visit

• 9 You Be the Coder: Flexible Sigmoidoscopy With Prior Colectomy