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Give Your Radiosurgery or Gamma Knife Surgery Coding a Check-Up - 2010-02-28 23:08:45-05
Improve your reimbursement chances by applying modifier 58 in this situation. When your surgeon targets the brain or spine with stereotactic radiosurgery (also called gamma knife surgery) to treat multiple lesions over multiple sessions, you need to know two crucial things: what stereotactic radiosurgery codes to use and how many units to include. Take this three-question challenge [...] Related articles:
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Think You Understand the New Consult Rules? Find Out Fast - 2010-02-28 23:11:26-05
Test your 2010 consultation coding understanding with these questions. Consultation coding has every practice on edge this year. Ensure that you’ve got a handle on this complicated coding and billing situation by trying your hand at this question. Question: When a visit with a Medicare inpatient that would normally have been coded as a consultation does not [...] Related articles:
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Stay in the Game With the Correct Ligament Repair, Reconstruction Codes - 2010-03-02 16:39:44-05
Remember ligament repair abbreviations to simplify elbow ligament surgeries. Baseball players are gearing up for the season, which means your orthopedist could see a sudden increase in elbow ligament injuries. If conservative therapies fail to help torn medial (841.1) or lateral (841.0) collateral ligament injuries, your surgeon might opt to perform a ligament repair or reconstruction. [...] Related articles:
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CMS Tells MACs to Hold Claims For 10 Days - 2010-03-02 17:21:15-05
The latest on the 21 percent Medicare pay cut. If you’re practice leans heavily on Medicare for reimbursement, expect your cash flow to taper off a bit. CMS has instructed the MACs to hold claims for the first ten business days in March, according to numerous press reports like this one from Healthcare Finance News. “A bill intended [...] Related articles:
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Ob-gyn Coding Challenge: EM End-Result Tells You What ICD Code To Go For - 2010-03-03 01:10:56-05
Check out these ICD-10 ob-gyn diagnosis coding equivalents. Question: A patient presented for an initial OB visit. Another clinic confirmed her pregnancy, but she has never received prenatal care. The patient got her usual initial OB service (i.e. lab orders), Pap smear, and chlamydia trachomatis (CT)/neisseria gonorrhoeae (GC) screening. After discussing some concerns with the patient, [...] Related articles:
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