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Dear AAPC Region West, July was an interesting for healthcare policy. First, the government halted risk adjustment payments only to resume them later in the month. Second, CMS proposed a litany of changes to the fee schedule including making History and Examination documentation optional and paying one fee for outpatient Level 2-5 services. What are […]
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can I bill all three charges: 90935 x2, and 90962?
or can I now only bill the comprehensive visit 90962?
:confused:
thx for any opinions
Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett, Missouri, a 116-bed hospital, will close June 30. It will stop providing Ob/Gyn services after May 17, and it will completely stop inpatient, emergency room and hospital-based outpatient services June 30. They are consolidating operations with Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center.
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Thank you!
Amy
HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS
This is a 16-week-old with multiple medical conditions including rhizomelic chondrodysplasia in addition to central and obstructive sleep apnea. The patient is currently in the neonatal ICU and is declining on nasal BiPAP. As such, they have asked the ENT Team to intubate the patient in the OR with the Anesthesia Team, as he is reported to have a very difficulty airway from prior operations.
DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE
The patient was brought to the OR and laid in the supine position. The Anesthesia Team breathed the patient down with sevoflurane gas to sedate the child. Once he was adequately sedated yet still breathing on his own, a Miller 1 blade was used to achieve a grade 4 view with significant cricoid pressure being applied. A 3.5 uncuffed ET tube was successfully inserted on the 1st attempt. At this time the patient was then turned back over to Respiratory Care and transferred back up to the NICU.
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Shanda Andrews, CPC
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) calculates the Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) improper payment rate through the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program. Every year, CERT evaluates a statistically valid stratified random sample of claims to determine if they were paid properly under Medicare coverage, coding, and billing rules. A dispute may be filed […]
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Can anyone help me? I don’t usually code inpatient and I wanted to be sure. 24 month old hospitalized non-critical E & M code would just be from the Hospital Inpatient Services Section, right? 99221? The doctor has to state the patient is critical right?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a blanket term for progressive diseases of the lower respiratory tract — most commonly, chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Approximately 15.7 million men and women in the United States were reportedly diagnosed with COPD in 2015; millions more are believed to go undiagnosed every year, according to the Centers for […]
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