Primary care providers see patients for a wide variety of conditions, meaning coders in those settings may have to learn many of the new concepts and terms in ICD-10-CM. Annie Boynton, BS, RHIT, CPCO, CCS, CPC, CCS-P, COC, CPC-P, CPC-I, and Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, CPC-I, CPMA, CRC, CHPSE, CGSC, CENTC, COBGC, CPEDC, discuss three common conditions seen in these settings and what information coders will need to look for in documentation to code them in ICD-10-CM.
Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC, reviewsCPT® coding for interrupted pregnancies, while also highlighting changes coders can expect for related diagnoses in ICD-10-CM.
Dave Fee, MBA, identifies updates to CMS' programming logic for comprehensive APCs and provides a step-by-step approach to determine whether a complexity adjustment will be applied.
A Recovery Auditor automated review of claims for cardiovascular nuclear medicine procedures found potential incorrect billing due to lack of medical necessity, according to the latest Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter.
Q: We are trying to verify whether we should bill for two units of the CPT® code when the provider performs a service with and without magnetic resonance angiography (MRA), such as an MRA of the abdomen, with or without contrast material (code 74185). The description of the MRA CPT codes say "with or without," not with and without for billing all non-Medicare payers. We realize for Medicare we are to use HCPCS codes C8900-C8902.
