Medical Coding Pro - Radiology Coding: CPT 2010 Breathes New Life Into Your Respiratory Coding

Published: Sun, 01/17/10


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Radiology Coding: CPT 2010 Breathes New Life Into Your Respiratory Coding - 2010-01-14 13:35:43-05
Master 32561’s guidelines to prevent a major units gaffe. Flip through the Surgery/Respiratory System section of your CPT 2010 manual, and you’ll see the coding committee has been hard at work adding to and revising your options. Discover the added cath removal code, the all new fibrinolytic agent instillation code, and the reshaped bronchoscopy descriptors, so [...] Related articles:
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Checklist: Collect Surgical Deductibles Up Front to Improve A/R - 2010-01-17 01:04:39-05
This 3-step checklist will boost your bottom line. With fewer patients following through on procedures because of economic and financial struggles, and an increasing number of patients not paying their bills, your practice needs to find ways to improve your A/R and bring in deserved money. Adapting an up-front deductible collection policy is one proven way [...] Related articles:
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Winter Laceration Repair: How Do I Code For Dermabond? - 2010-01-17 01:11:28-05
Warning: Your coding will vary depending on who’s getting the claim Question: A 60-year-old patient reports to the ED with a bandaged left hand. The patient says she was cleaning out the blades of her snow blower and cut her left index finger; the wound is wrapped in gauze, but it is reddening with blood. During [...] Related articles:
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Anesthesia Coding Education: Combined Spinal Epidural - 2010-01-17 16:01:41-05
Question: Our anesthesiologists sometimes mark our C-section tickets as “combined spinal epidural,” but our billing system will only allow us to choose epidural or spinal. Where can I find information about spinal epidurals and how to correctly code them? Answer: From a coding perspective, whether your physician used spinal or epidural anesthesia doesn’t matter as long [...] Related articles:
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Pathology Billing: Calculate How MUE/CCI Restricts Your Outside Consult Pay - 2010-01-17 16:10:09-05
Don’t bank on accepted 88321-88323 unit of service. Your pathologist consults with an outside lab on slides taken from a 2006 lumpectomy and a 2009 lymph node fine needle aspiration (FNA). That’s 88321 x 2 — right? Maybe. Your payer determines the answer to that question. The problem: “Although the American Medical Association (AMA) says the unit of service for [...] Related articles:
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