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From patient accounting systems to sticky notes and "cheat sheets" posted in exam rooms, ICD-9 codes permeate the health care environment, translating the information in medical records to numbers on…
From patient accounting systems to sticky notes and "cheat sheets" posted in exam rooms, ICD-9 codes permeate the health care environment, translating the information in medical records to numbers on…
These edits took effect April 1, so start observing them yesterday.
The latest version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) has an edit that family practice coders should note – especially if the practice treats newborn patients.
Get to know the new CCI 16.1 edit and get ready to observe it with this expert breakdown. Check Column 1 on These Hospital E/Ms According to CCI 16.1, these codes are in column 1 of the mutually exclusive edits:
Column 2 of these edits includes these codes:
Translation: An FP may not report both normal newborn care and subsequent hospital care for a newborn on the same date of service. If the FP performs normal newborn services (99460-99462) on the same date that the newborn later becomes ill and receives subsequent hospital care (99231-99233), you should only report a code from the 99231-99233 code set, explains Kent Moore, manager of health care financing and delivery systems for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in Leawood, Kan.
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