Did you factor in a foreign body removal code?
Question: During an open hernia repair for a reducible umbilical hernia, the surgeon finds a sizeable gallstone embedded in the omentum extending into the preperitoneal fat. The surgeon excises the...
Don’t code a closed fracture treatment code without more information.
Question: Our orthopedist saw a patient in the emergency department for a gunshot wound and diagnosed a metacarpal fracture. He irrigated the site and removed a foreign body. Can we...
If you’ve been holding study claims, the time to send them in is here.
Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 16.1 has the news you’ve been waiting for.
The latest version, effective April 1, deletes 142 edit pairs, Frank D. Cohen,...
Keep signature, modifier 59, and ‘Incident To’ guidelines front and center.
If you’ve been worrying that the oncologist’s illegible signature on an order is going to come back to haunt your practice in an audit, CMS has offered
answers...