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Deb
We got B08.4 (Enteroviral vesicular stomatitis with exanthem), but my doctor says that this code seems to reflect mostly on the stomatitis, but not the actual condition of the disease. Any better coding for this (systemic virus infection with manifestation on hand, foot and mouth)
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Bamboo
2. Patient has 11055 performed on June 4th on right sub #5 and 11055 performed on June 28th on right sub #1. Can you bill 11055 for both visits since they are different callus’ even though not within 60 days of last callus treatment? We received a denial for this scenario, can this denial be appealed?
OHIO-CGS Medicare
Our Podiatrist performs foot xray in the office. But we received a denial from Medicare for CPT codes 73600 (LT ankle x-ray), 73630 (LT foot x-ray), 73590 (LT tibia/fibula x-ray) on the same day of service due to "Payment adjusted because the payer deems the information submitted does not support this many/frequency of services". I checked guideline, all three CPTs with maximum unit for single day of service are 3 units, we did not exceed the daily maximum, all CPT were reported with 1 unit on the same day of service.
On the other hand, the same patient has three consecutive office visits DOS 03/24/2017, 04/26/2017 and 05/12/2017 been submitted with all these XRAY CPT (73600, 73630, 73590) and all CPT with 1 unit per visit. And DOS 05/12/2017 has been paid, but for DOS 03/24/2017 is still pending and DOS 04/26/2017 was denied with too many frequencies. By any chance that Medicare is not covering it because procedures have been performed once a month?
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I’m looking into getting some on line help and I have noticed that there are several services out there. I was wondering if any of you can recommend which one to either go with, or stay away from?
Hoping I can get some help on both ICD-10 Diagnosis and CPT on this one. Thanks in advance
Patient has Chronic Ulceration with Osteomyelitis thrid toe right foot (L97519;L03031;M86171)
Procedure: Attention was directed to the distal aspect of the patient’s third toe right foot where an
incision was placed circumscribing the toe just distal to the distal interphalangeal
joint. The incision was deepened down to bone. The distal interphalangeal joint was
identified and the toe was disarticulated at this joint. The distal aspect of the toe was
then excised in total and sent to Pathology for further inspection. Aerobic and anaerobic
cultures were then taken from the joint. The head of the middle phalanx was resected
using power instrumentation. The middle phalanx appeared to be healthy. The bone was
hard and white. No drainage was noted. The remaining portion of the middle phalanx was
rasped smooth. The surgical site was thoroughly irrigated with sterile saline. The deep
structures were closed wit h 3-0 Vicryl and the skin was closed with 4-0 Prolene. Sterile
compressive dressings were then applied. At this time, the tourniquet was released and
intravenous sedation was discontinued.
I am looking at 28825 with Modifier T7