Archive for The Day of April 19th, 2006
Archive for the Day of April 19th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of April 19th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during April 19th, 2006.
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How to Dx More Than One Severity Level on Your Medical Billing Claim
Example: a patient presents with both first and second degree burns on their face. You should report only the more severe (in this case second degree) burns when assigning diagnoses for burns in the same anatomical location. For example, the codes beginning with 941 describe the face, head and neck burns. For burns to the trunk, you would use the 942 series, and codes 943, 944, and 945 are for burns to the arms, hands, and legs, respectively. Remember that you should never report a first degree burn separately with the 941-946 series if there are more severe burns on any other part of the body, except when treatment is …
Medical Billing News -AMA Eliminates Modifier Hyphen
You may have noticed in recent coding alerts that there is no hyphen included before a modifier. The AMA has done away with using hyphens before modifiers. This change occurs in CPT’s coding manuals and CPT assistant as well. The AMA used the hyphen as a formatting convention in order to ensure that people realized that an upcoming number was a modifier. The symbol avoided numerical confusion as well. The hyphen would alert a reader that the last two digits, such as “-25” were not a part of the CPT code. This should not be a huge change, since most people are most likely used to looking at modifiers without …
