• 1 Surgical Coding Corner: Narrow Your Instrumentation Coding Choices With These Location Tips

• 2 E/M Best Practices: Bone Up on New-Established Rules to Eradicate E/M Miscodes

• 3 E/M Best Practices: Master New Patient E/Ms or Leave Cash on the Table

• 4 News you can use: Feds Down Conversion Factor, Up DEXA Scan RVUs

• 5 Reader Question: Look at Destruction Level for Thermocoagulation Code

• 6 Reader Question: Check With Payer for Correct 50 Placement

• 7 Reader Question: Avoid 10121 for Ommaya Reservoir Removal

• 8 Reader Question: Start With 63045, Then Code Foraminotomy

• 9 Reader Question: Note Follow-Ups As Part of Global - Usually

• 10 Reader Question: Include Decompression in Gill Procedure

• 11 Reader Question: Add Modifier 24 for New Service During Global

• 12 You Be the Coder: Code PEEK and Instrumentation Separately