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Wondering what the future holds for healthcare? Just scan through the CPT® Category III codes. The CPT® Editorial Panel recently released 20 new Category III codes for emerging technologies, procedures, services, and service standards. The codes go into effect July 1, but you won’t find them in your 2023 code book. In accordance with the […]
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Use this guide to prevent errors in claims for therapeutic and diagnostic services getting past you. Therapeutic and diagnostic services, which includes injections, infusions, physical medicine, and rehabilitation, are some of the most difficult services to code. As a result, claims for these services — reported with codes from the Medicine section in CPT® — […]
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You can rest assured that when you break procedure codes into groups, it’s easier to compare and apply proper codes. Sleep medicine is a sub-specialty of neurology, which can seem very daunting to coders and physicians due to technicalities in the guidelines and procedure code descriptions. The good news is that code selection is simple […]
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My question is if Maternal Fetal Medicine is seeing a patient for all of her prenatal care, delivery and postpartum care, shouldn’t MFM bill out a global delivery charge if the patient meets the criteria with the amount of prenatal visits (approximately 13 rule)? Also if MFM is seeing a pregnant patient as a co-specialty to the patients general OB doctor who is seeing the patient for her prenatal, delivery and postpartum care, wouldn’t MFM bill out their visits separately since MFM isn’t taking on the patients care?
Thanks for your help. It’s greatly appreciated,
Sarita
I code for MAT for Opioid Dependence. When on Suboxone, alcohol is prohibited due to the fact that consuming alcohol while taking Buprenorphine can lead to loss of consciousness or even death. In this case, the patient has had positive ETG for the past few visits. Patient denies alcohol use, but has been having dental issues and has been using a prescribed mouthwash. I’d like to be able to code for the alcohol risk, but it certainly cannot be ascribed to alcohol abuse. Would F10.99 Alcohol use, unspecified, with other alcohol induced disorder be appropriate? Can Opioid dependence in MAT treatment with the possibility of drug to drug interaction qualify as a disorder?
Thanks so much for any feedback.
Allison
Request to guide that, can we report 97110 (Therapeutic procedure, 1 or more areas, each 15 minutes; therapeutic exercises to develop strength and endurance, range of motion and flexibility) for below scenario ?
In the office visit of Worker’s Compensation of California by general practitioner or family medicine, provider documents below paragraph with the heading of therapeutic exercises.
THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES
The patient was personally trained in appropriate warm up, strengthening and stretching exercises. These rehabilitative exercises were reiterated, demonstrated and reinforced; while the patient actively participated. This is also intended to be performed at home on a daily basis. The rehabilitation routine decreases inflammation, increases flexibility and strength of the specific structures in the injury adjacent locale to include both agonist and antagonist muscle groups, intrinsic flexor, extensor and rotary muscles as well as supporting structures. The exercises were intended to increase strength and range of motion and decrease pain. The minimum time required for CPT 97110 was exceeded for this patient.
We are looking into Occupational medicine and I can’t find very many codes they are requesting for certain exams, Fit for Duty and a few other test. I would like to find someone who could help me with this information or maybe has a sheet they have compiled if they currently work in an occupational medicine office.
Thank you for your help in Advance,
_@_ , CPC, CPB
Please let me know your thoughts, and if you have any references please include those too. I’ve been searching, but need a little more help.
Thanks – Kathleen