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When we have a patient come in for a PT/INR and the physician sees them discusses the dosage and makes changes to the medication how should that be billed?
I think it would depend what the medication is being prescribed for (i.e., afib, coumadin therapy, DVT,etc), and most likely, you would code the reason the patient is on the medication in the first place. Unless, of course, the doc documents something else specifically.
When we have a patient come in for a PT/INR and the physician sees them discusses the dosage and makes changes to the medication how should that be billed?
There was a really good artical about this in the Coding Edge a good while back. It stated that the first dx is V58.83, then the reason they are on coumadin, (such as afib: 427.31), and then the V58.61.