Tag Archives: Coding Errors
Place-of-Service Codes Caused $13 Million in Overpayments
Double check POS 11 shouldn’t be 22 — or 24.
Entering your place-of-service (POS) number on your claim form may seem routine, but a recent OIG audit found that practices are not giving POS numbers the care they deserve.
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Posted in Hot Coding Topics, Oig
Tagged Accusations, ASC, Audit Findings, Claim Form, Cms, Coding Errors, Cpc, Diagnosis, Facility Location, Hospital Outpatient Departments, Insider, Medicare, Nursing Facility, Oig, Physicians, Pos, Safeguards, Scrutiny
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Navigate Your Way to Proper Internal/External Hemorrhoid Coding
Don’t miss CPT 2010 ‘either/or’ instruction for hemorrhoid location.
You can’t choose a hemorrhoidectomy code if you don’t know the distinction between internal and external hemorrhoids. Let our experts guide you through the anatomy and coding maze to help you…
Posted in Coder's Cranium
Tagged Anal Canal, Anal Verge, Anesthesiology Departments, Best Bet, Code Location, Coding Errors, Compliance Education, Compliance Program, Cpcp, Dentate Line, excision, External Hemorrhoids, hemorrhoids, Internal Hemorrhoids, Medical Hemorrhoids, Mucocutaneous Junction, Pittsburgh Medical Center, Sickler, University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Washington Physicians
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93000-93010: Hone Your ECG Coding Skills With 3 Essential Pointers
Grasping 93010’s effect on new vs. established patient status could bring a $58 reward.
Whether you call them ECGs or EKGs, chances are you see a lot of electrocardiograms in your practice. That means that even the tiniest coding errors…
Posted in Cardiology, E/M, Hot Coding Topics, Medicare, modifier 26, modifier TC
Tagged Acs, Cardiologist, Ccc, Code Components, Coding Errors, Cpc, Cpt, Currents, Denials, Electrical Activity, Electrocardiogram, Electrocardiograms, Electrodes, Huey, Patient Status, Professional Component, Sinoatrial Node, technical component, Technical Components, Vascular Center
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