Our experts answer questions on payment rates for scans, bronchodilator treatment, the inpatient-only list, stereotactic radiosurgery, bill exposure with arthrodesis, and more.
The U.S. healthcare system is and will continue to be dependent on clinical codes and is thus equally dependent on accurate and complete clinical documentation. This relationship then makes documentation and coding truly dependent upon each other; without one you don’t have the other. It sounds plain and simple, but of course it is not.
Our experts answer questions about billing vasectomy and sperm analysis , coding for ED visit when the patient is admitted for surgery, billing glucose reading before a PET scan, documentation required for the functional limitation codes, and appropriate reporting of observation.
Our coding experts answer your questions about observation orders, sequencing additional diagnoses, coding for wound care with no-cost skin substitute, and reporting cardiac rehabilitation and physical therapy together.
In this month's issue, our coding experts answer questions about how to differentiate between modifiers -52, -73, -74, coding for negative pressure wound therapy, and billing the technical component of pathology services.
