• 1 Get Ready for the New Diagnosis Codes

• 2 Chart: ICD-9-CM Changes Effective Oct. 1, 2003

• 3 New NCCI Takes Aim at Ob Pain Management

• 4 News You Can Use

• 5 Challenge Inappropriate Bundling Edits

• 6 Reader Question: 2 Lesions? Code for Both

• 7 Reader Question: Use 15839 for Excess Skin Excision

• 8 Reader Question: Work With V Codes for Spontaneous Abortion Aftercare

• 9 Reader Question: Use 2 Codes for Inverted Hat Technique

• 10 Reader Question: Bill BPP Separately From Ultrasound

• 11 Reader Question: Inpatient or Outpatient Can Make All the Difference

• 12 You Be the Coder: V Codes and Ob Ultrasound