Coder's Cranium

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.

Starting...

Comments Off on Medical Coders, Prime Your Diagnostic Test Documentation For Sure-Fire Success
April 5, 2010
CPT 2010 / Hot Coding Topics

CPT 2010 Update: Tally Up Common Audiology Code Groups Into Single Codes

Plus, add this new tympanometry code to your cache next year. One of CPT 2010’s initiatives is to move several codes typically performed together into one code. Check out these new audiology testing codes and understand the rationale before Jan. 1 hits. For instance, if your physician performs a vestibular evaluation in 2010, you will report new [...] Related articles:

  1. Diagnostic Radiology ICD-9 Code Update: New Mammo Code 793.82 New code 793.82 shakes up the whole 793.x range...
  2. Can a Sleep Study Code Describe an Awake Test? Question: A sleep study was ordered for a patient...
  3. Bundle of His Recording Coding ChallengeQuestion: How should I report right atrial pacing and recording...

Comments Off on CPT 2010 Update: Tally Up Common Audiology Code Groups Into Single Codes
December 5, 2009