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PREOPERATIVE DIAGNOSIS: Torn right medial and lateral menisci. POSTOPERATIVE DIAGNOSES: Torn right medial and lateral menisci, degenerative arthritis of medial femoral condyle, and chondromalacia patella. PROCEDURES PERFORMED: DISPOSITION: The patient tolerated the procedure very well. OPERATIVE PROCEDURE: The patient was brought to the operating room. He was properly identified and correct extremity was marked. The … Read more
Parkinson’s disease G20 Secondary parkinsonism due to prescribed Thorazine (neuroleptic drug), initial encounter G21.11 T43.3x5A Intractable epilepsy, grand mal type, status epilepticus G40.411 Poorly controlled generalized idiopathic epilepsy G40.319 Intractable focal epilepsy G40.119 Febrile convulsions, recurrent R56.00 Alzheimer’s disease with delirium G30.9 F02.80 F05 Chronic intractable tension-type headache G44.221 Cerebrovascular accident with left-sided weakness I63.9 … Read more
Continue Education units(CEUs) are very important for retaining the certification from AAPC and AHIMA. Every year medical coders are in need of CEUs. If CEUs are not submitted on time, the coder may lose his or her certification from AAPC or AHIMA. Hence, CEUs are very important for all certified medical coders. Today, again I … Read more
Medical coding professionals needs to carry credentials or certification for a growth in their career. I have already written a lot about CPC (Certified Professional Coder) exam conducted by AAPC. You would have now got all the important tips for preparing and clearing CPC exam. But, today we will talk of CCS (Certified Coding Specialist) … Read more
There are new HCPCS codes introduced for presumptive and definitive testing. Every year there are new HCPCS codes added and old codes get deleted. Here, we have three new HCPCS codes for presumptive testing and four new HCPCS codes for definitive testing in 2016. Presumptive test is nothing but to detect the presence of drug … Read more
Since the time professionals have taken medical coding as a career, they have the curiosity about how to be called a Certified Professional coder. Having a Certification with a nice experience in medical coding will surely give you a good growth in your career. Many medical coders first start learning about medical codes and then … Read more
Status Z codes for Vascular Catheter placement Before giving Chemotherapy to cancer patient, doctors usually place a port or catheter in chest to give required drugs for neoplasm. This catheter can be placed as non-tunneled or tunneled in chest. The CPT codes used for placing the vascular catheter range from 36555-36571. This code range will … Read more
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Pregnancy icd codes V22.0, V22.1 and V22.2 Coding of pregnancy charts is little tricky. When coders get OB chart they we mostly get confuse with the cpt as well as with icd codes. Since, we have different chapter 11, especially for OB complication codes. Therefore, whenever we have an OB procedure performed with a complication … Read more
As I have already shared previously there have been lot of changes in CPT codes in 2017. Also, we have new 2017 moderate sedation guidelines for coders with new CPT codes. Since, the conscious sedation service is now removed from almost all the surgery codes, it will now be mandatory to code sedation separately when … Read more