Imaging services are used by healthcare professionals to provide a non-invasive way of looking inside the human body. For coders, piecing together ICD-10-PCS codes to report the imaging services involves understanding the unique structure of the Imaging section and applying the correct characters to reflect the procedure performed. Follow Shelley C. Safian, PhD, RHIA, CCS-P, COC, CPC-I , as she delves into the section.
Hospitals are seeing an increasing number of clinical validation denials that are frequently linked to documentation that does not fully describe the clinical severity of the patient’s condition, even though the documentation technically meets coding requirements. One helpful way to approach this issue is by recognizing inpatient severity drivers—such as physiological instability, organ dysfunction, and treatment intensity—in order to understand the true severity of illness in hospitalized patients.
Our experts answer questions on assigning ICD-10-CM P codes versus Z codes for newborn conditions, using artificial intelligence to improve documentation and coding workflows, and coding postsurgical malabsorption.
To capture revenue for medically necessary E/M visits and avoid overpayments, your staff must understand when they should and should not use modifiers -24 and -57.
Preventive care is a system of tests and treatments designed to keep healthy people healthy. These services include the administration of immunizations and vaccines, as well as counseling for smoking cessation and nutritional guidance
The Office of the Inspector General announced it is launching a new audit of evaluation and management services billed on the same day as minor procedures.
Assigning and sequencing diagnosis codes for COPD in the face of an acute exacerbation of COPD, particularly when the patient’s condition progresses to respiratory failure, has posed challenges to coders for quite a while. Nancy Reading, BS, CPC, CPC-P, CPC-I, demonstrates how to nail down the diagnosis codes based on clinical presentations before determining the correct sequencing for principal diagnosis assignment.
Preventive care is a system of tests and treatments designed to keep healthy people healthy. These services include the administration of immunizations and vaccines, as well as counseling for smoking cessation and nutritional guidance
