Examine Medicare’s coverage guidelines.
Question: My ob-gyn sees a patient who has breast implants or breast augmentation and orders a mammogram. Should I count the mammography as a screening or a diagnostic test?
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Anesthesia, patient well-being can clue you in to the best modifier choice.
When your urologist ends a procedure early, you know you need to append a modifier to the procedure code, but the challenge is deciding between modifier 52 or…
Test your 2010 consultation coding understanding with these questions and answers.
Consultation coding has every practice on edge this year. Ensure that you’ve got a handle on this complicated coding and billing situation by taking this three-question quiz and then…
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…
Discover why coding a myofascial flap twice is a big mistake.
Question: Our surgeon performs an abdominal closure using left and right myofascial advancement flaps. I believe we should code one unit of 15734 because flap codes refer to the…
Pre-authorization snag may require ABN.
If your practice performs MR urograms, you need to be prepared to handle a few reimbursement roadblocks.
You may find conflicting information in researching how to code MR urograms. For example, you may come across…