Archive for the Week of September 21, 2007
Archive for the Week of September 21, 2007
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the week of September 21, 2007.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the week of September 21, 2007.
You can browse this week's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Digit Removal Medical Billing Questions
Just when you got a handle of medical billing, another policy throws a curve ball at you. In some instances, the same CPT code is used for two different procedures. An example of this is when performing both and extra digit removal and a skin tag removal. The same medical billing CPT code, 11200, would be used in both of these instances. The medical billing code 11200 means, removal of skin tags, multiple fibrocutaneous tags, any area; up to and including 15 lesions. This means that if an individual needs an extra digit AND a skin tag removed, than you would use 11200 to report both. To let the payers …
Getting the Indirect Supervision Code Right in Three Steps
For help with performing the care plan oversight services if you are having a hard time with the 993xx series these steps should help to get you started. Step one is to count these care services as 99374-99380. The 993xx series codes allows pediatricians to bill for coordination of care of special needs children without face to face visits. You can report these care plan oversight CPO codes as 99374-99380 for Doctor supervision. This is only for when the patient is not present for the following doctors services, a) revision or development of care plans for multidisciplinary and complex modalities. b) related lab and other studes review c) patient status …
434.91 – Stroke – Hemorrhage or Both?
When using 434.91 make sure you take all of the specifics into account. When a doctor says that a patient has had a stroke make sure that you know all of the details of the situation or else some procedures can be hard to justify and therefore your medical billing reimbursement may be denied. In the past for diagnosis of a stroke the ICD-9 index listed 436, which is acute but ill defined cerebrovascular disease, as the code to use. Now the index has code 434.91 as the code to use. This is cerebral artery occlusion, unspecified with cerebral infarction. The new ICD-9 index automatically translates a doctors diagnosis of …
