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Medical Coders, Prime Your Diagnostic Test Documentation For Sure-Fire Success

Technical and professional components hold your clues.

What do insurers expect for documentation of tympanometry or other diagnostic tests? That’s the question Pediatric Coding Alert subscriber Paula Escobar with Riverside Pediatric Group asked, so we went looking for answers.

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April 5, 2010
Coding Challenge

Surgery Coding Challenge: Keep Flaps Straight for Proper Code Selection

Discover why coding a myofascial flap twice is a big mistake.

Question: Our surgeon performs an abdominal closure using left and right myofascial advancement flaps. I believe we should code one unit of 15734 because flap codes refer to the...

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April 5, 2010