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Medical Coding Example 1 EXAM: NM GASTRIC EMPTYING STUDY REASON FOR STUDY: Nausea and vomiting CLINICAL HISTORY: Nausea and vomiting TECHNIQUE: A standard meal consisting of Eggbeater 4 oz, toast, jam and water was labeled with the radiopharmaceutical and administered orally to the patient. Subsequent static images were obtained at approximately 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 180 and … Read more
ICD coding guidelines are very important for coding diagnosis codes. Now, as we have started using ICD 10 codes we have to be more accurate while coding diagnosis codes. I know we already have ICD 10 coding guidelines in codebooks but we hardly refer them till it is very essential. There is the lot of … Read more
Their are around 216 ICD 10 PCS codes, which are deleted in 2019. We have learnt about the new ICD 10 PCS codes in previous post. Below I am sharing the list of deleted ICD10 PCS for new year. Below is the list of deleted ICD 10 PCS in 2019 0RG00Z0 Fusion of Occipital-cervical Joint, … Read more
In 2019, we have lot of new cpt codes added in updated codebook. In 2019, for ICD 10 PCS we have around 392 new ICD 10 PCS codes. Previously we have checked the list of new CPT codes effective from 1st January 2019. If you have missed them, you can refer the below post to … Read more
Every year we have new cpt codes added in CPT codebook. Since, we are going to enter in 2019 in few months we will be having lot of new procedures codes in updated new 2019 CPT codebook. We have already in previous post in part 1 and part 2 about some of the new CPT … Read more
As we move towards the end of 2018, we will be soon having lot of updates in ICD 10 and CPT codes. New ICD 10 codes get effective from 1st october, every year and new CPT codes get effective from 1st of January. This year also, there are lot of new ICD 10 codes and … Read more
There are lot of changes in the new CPT codes that are added for 2019. The first and the major change is the deletion of FNA or fine needle aspiration code 10022. CPT code 10022 is deleted and replaced with CPT 10004 for each additional lesion. The new CPT codes 10005-10012 will be used in … Read more
Being a medical coder, I feel coding multiple ICD 10 codes is very complicated in diagnosis coding. Sequencing ICD 10 codes becomes very important when we are coding multiple diagnosis codes. Since we have very specific codes in ICD 10, the frequency of using multiple diagnosis codes has increased. Even in 2019, we will be … Read more
Risk adjustment is a method to offset the cost of providing health insurance for individuals—such as those with chronic health conditions—who represent a relatively high risk to insurers. Under risk adjustment, an insurer who enrolls a greater-than-average number of high-risk individuals receives compensation to make up for extra costs associated with those enrollees. The Risk … Read more
There are two types of Modifiers in Medical coding, Level 1 and Level 2. Level 1 are CPT modifiers, two digit alphanumeric while Level 2 are HCPCS modifiers and are two digit alpha or alphanumeric. We will just talk today about the use of Level 1 modifiers that is CPT modifiers. CPT modifiers consists of … Read more