• 1 Medicare: Prepare for Medicare to Cover Tobacco Cessation Counseling for All Smoking Beneficiaries

• 2 ICD-9: New 'Attention Deficit' Choices Will Help Fill Your Diagnosis Coding Gap

• 3 Casts and Splints: Avoid the Cast Trap of Coding Within the Global

• 4 Reader Questions: Watch Procedure to Determine 25 With E/M

• 5 Reader Questions: Document Vitals Even If Not Required

• 6 Reader Questions: Code Symptoms Over 'Worried Well Check'

• 7 Reader Questions: Symbols and Chart Explain V Code Order

• 8 Reader Questions: Coding for Gyn and Pap Smear Depends on Circumstances and Payer

• 9 Reader Questions: Wart Removal Without Cryo Equals 17110

• 10 Reader Questions: Beware Tacking on Additional Patient Charges

• 11 Reader Questions: The Hard Truth about Phone Call Pay

• 12 You Be the Coder: Is Seeing SNF Patients Allowed?